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The Work of Art How Something Comes from Nothing

Adam Moss

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The Ezra Klein Show

The book collected 43 conversations with artists, presenting their drafts, sketches and notes to trace how artworks evolve from initial ideas to finished pieces.

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so he begins asking them, and the result is his new book, The Work of Art, How Something Comes from Nothing, which tracks alongside 43 artists some great piece they did, be it a visual art, a piece of...

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Episode: This Conversation Made Me a Sharper Editor

The book collected 43 conversations with artists, presenting their drafts, sketches and notes to trace how artworks evolve from initial ideas to finished pieces.

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so he begins asking them, and the result is his new book, The Work of Art, How Something Comes from Nothing, which tracks alongside 43 artists some great piece they did, be it a visual art, a piece of music, a piece of journalism from where it began, and he gets them to turn over their drafts, their sketches, their notes, and tracks where it ultimately goes and how they get it to there.

One thing I enjoyed about the book is the age range of the artists profiled.

Pivot

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Pivot

The Work of Art, How Something Comes From Nothing explores the creative processes of various artists, including painters, musicians, filmmakers, and sandcastle builders. Moss interviewed these artists to understand how they think and how they approach making something from nothing, examining the stages of imagining, judging, and shaping.

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I loved it even as it tortured me.

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The Work of Art, How Something Comes From Nothing explores the creative processes of various artists, including painters, musicians, filmmakers, and sandcastle builders. Moss interviewed these artists to understand how they think and how they approach making something from nothing, examining the stages of imagining, judging, and shaping.

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I loved it even as it tortured me.

I never turn anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs, I make them look like pigs.

Making art isn't about talent. It's really, it's about a whole lot of different things, but it's mainly about endurance.

The wind go through me.

It's really, it's a nothing sentence. Don't you think? Well, to me, it was the most beautiful sentence I had ever written in my life and the most beautiful phrase I'd ever written in my life.

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