Creativity & Compassion- The Stuff of Stories
Fill To Capacity (Where Heart, Grit and Irreverent Humor Collide)
English - November 23, 2022 20:11 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSociety & Culture creativity inspiration art personal growth resilience healing mental health artist interviews authentic storytelling life lessons Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Richard Whittaker, founder of works & conversations magazine, who has interviewed over 200 artists, candidly shares his and other’s experiences and insights about the struggle, mystery, and ecstatic joy of living a creative life.
The stories, quirks, twists and turns of being creative are viewed in a larger context of what it means to be authentic and present in the choices we make and the paths we follow.
Richard Whittaker is the founding editor of works & conversations and is the West Coast editor of Parabola magazine. Although he holds degrees in philosophy and clinical psychology, he has been immersed in the arts for over 50 years and works in ceramics, painting, sculpture, and photography.
QUOTES
RICHARD: “I could say the words, but in a way, I, I couldn't bring the rest of myself to my own words. And when I saw that, because I was trying to reach deep and reach high in my work, I felt it was inauthentic and not responsible and not honest if I couldn't bring my whole self to my words and stand there behind my words or under my words. “
RICHARD: "You see poetry in many forms when you see something that embodies the beauty of wholeness and grace and your heart is touched. That's ... poetry."
RICHARD: “I don't care if I call myself an artist or not...What's important is this experience. And if I make things that are art...it doesn't matter so much. But I had a decision to make, and I made this decision that I would try to give myself a hundred percent to this creative side of myself that I had never explicitly decreed to be my path.”
4 Interviews About Richard Whittaker:
A Conversation with Richard Whittaker: To see from the intelligence of the heart
by James Manteith, Tatiana Apraksina, Apr 9, 2020
A Conversation with Richard Whittaker: Berkeley Treasures by Robbin Henderson, Jan 22, 2018
Interview: Richard Whittaker: Talking with Artists by Carl Cheng, May 31, 2012
War Babies: A Generation’s Stories and America’s Soul: Richard Whittaker
"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens
Who Makes Originals, Ever? A Conversation with Viola Frey by Richard Whittaker, Aug 8, 2002
The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism
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