title: An Artist's Book of Inspiration: A Collection of Thoughts on Art, Artists, and Creativity
author:  Astrid Fitzgerald 
description: "A guide and inspiration ... amid the fractured confusion of the contemporary scene." -- <i>Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Reenchantment of Everyday Life</i><br /><br />"This eclectic and intelligent collection ... guides its readers into the myriad byways of the creative life." -- <i>Jane Hirshfield, poet, author of Given Sugar, Given Salt and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry</i><br /><br />"This is a permanent collection, light for the studio shelf." -- <i>Roger Lipsey, author of An Art of Our Own: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination</i><br /><br />...an exhilarating gathering which will move the soul and inspire the mind, develop the human heart... - Judith Hoffberg -- <i>Umbrella, 1997</i><br /><br />Fitzgerald conveys a poet's sensibility in the organization of this collection...A full field of illuminating ideas... - Nancy Quackenbush -- <i>Napra ReVIEW, 1997</i>
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  Copyright © 2018 by Astrid Holleeder
  
  
  
  
  
  Translation © 2017 by Welmoed Smith & Caspar Wijers
  
  
  
  
  
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