Fmr. President Musée Picasso
President Centre Pompidou
Picasso is a symbol of the creative process.
Always in metamorphosis. Always in transformation. Sometimes when you become wealthy and famous, you stop having the energy of the creative process, but if you see the whole span of his career, you have 50,000 works of art in all mediums. So the main mission of the museum is to display like a kaleidoscope, and we have always a new angle, a new direction.
Founder of Fondasyon Felicitee
Afrodescendant Ourstorian, Educator, Writer & Humanitarian
It’s true. In Haiti, to a large degree more women were involved in the Revolution, in the war, in the fighting for the nation for the very simple reason that women had more opportunities. After a certain time, we became invisible. Once you’re in your 60’s, you are missing a few front teeth, in fact, some of the women used to take a stone and break up their front teeth so that they wouldn’t be noticed anymore. “That’s just an old lady with no front teeth. Okay, she goes about her business, nobody looks at her. She can do nothing.” And those were the fighters–the greatest fighters of our revolution.
Founder & Executive Director of the Women's Earth & Climate Action Network International
Author of Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature & Artist
There’s a wide range of reasons that we really need to understand the root causes of a lot of our social ills and environmental ills. I think we need to continue to come back to this question of how we heal this imposed divide between the natural world and human social constructs. And that healing is key to how we’re going to really unwind the perilous moment that we face right now. How do we reconnect with the natural world? Not just intellectually, but in a very embodied way.
35th Generation of Shaolin Masters
Headmaster of the Shaolin Temple Europe
Just getting to know what is Buddhism, which is the foundation of every monastery. The Shaolin Temple is in the core, first of all, it’s a Buddhist monastery and when you are starting to read about Buddhism, one of the key sentences, in the beginning, is: With your thoughts, you are creating the world.
Director · National Museum of Women in the Arts
I came to work at the National Museum of Women in the Arts thirty-two years ago. I really took to the idea that the museum was controversial, that a lot of men said, "Why do you need a women's museum? There are so many other museums. Why do women have to be separated?"
Creator of Cyberpunk · Origins Award-Winning Game Designer
One of the things I’ve noticed is that a lot of those younger people are actually much nicer than they need to be. And they have to realize that this is going to be your world. It turns out the way you want to make it and so you should be thinking now about what you want out of this. What do you want that world to be? Do not wait around until the two generations beyond you have gone ahead and done it the way they want it because, by the time they get done, you’re not going to have the chance to shift it to where you want it. So start thinking now about where do you want to be? What is the future you want? And don’t be nice about it, just go ahead and start planning it now.
Showrunner · Writer · Director
They are very different skill sets and very different ways of approaching storytelling. Writing is very private. I find writing to be very difficult. I have an idea. I have a feeling, and then I write into it. That part of the process is the most painful and the most demanding. Directing is easier. It’s a very different skill set. It’s applying a story to the technique of how you film it, how it’s going to work. That part is so simple. The writing is brutally hard. There’s an architecture to every season that you write in television. I have to see the whole story. This big twelve-hour story. There’s a lot of math in that. There’s a lot of Where am I going? and How is it going to feel? Because at the end of the day, all I’m doing is trying to make people feel something.
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winning Novelist, Poet & Clinical Psychologist
We become the stories we tell ourselves…I started writing around the time I learned English because we moved to the States soon after my fourth birthday, and so I was here for kindergarten into elementary school. I grasped this new language just as I was learning how to also put things onto the page. Those two things really happened at the same time for me. I entered this world where I felt very different and very other, for all intents and purposes I was set to be raised in Kuwait. And then that of course got turned upside down after the invasion by Saddam. I think that so much of my trying to make sense of the world had to do with the displacement, exile and these experiences that my parents had experienced but then that I had as well as we were fleeing the war. It’s hard to know because I think that language was being formed in my brain at the same time that these things were happening.
Photographer
I always tell people the worst picture can ever take is one you don't take. And that is a simple philosophy. If you don't go out there and do the work, then you will never know. You may think there's going to be another great snowstorm. You might think there's going to be another great moment where a block is going to have a certain kind of rhythm or a culture is going to have a certain amount of innocence or a musician is going to be as reluctant or vulnerable or sympathetic. You just have to embrace the moment and do the work.
Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue No. 22
Performed by: Maria Pan’kiv
License: Public Domain
Source: Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue No. 22
Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude in C Major
Performed by: Kimiko Ishizaka
License: Public Domain
Source: Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude in C Major
Bach - Prelude and Fugue in E Major (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2)
Performed by: Randolph Hokanson
License: Public Domain
Source: Bach - Prelude and Fugue in E Major
Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria)
Performed by: Kimiko Ishizaka
License: Public Domain
Source: Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria)
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Vivaldi - Winter, Second Movement (Largo)
Performed by: John Harrison
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: Vivaldi - Winter, Second Movement (Largo)
Antonio Vivaldi - Spring, Second Movement (Largo)
Performed by: John Harrison
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: Vivaldi - Four Seasons, 1 Spring mvt 2 Largo
Antonio Vivaldi - Summer, Third Movement (Presto)
Performed by: John Harrison
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: Vivaldi - Four Seasons, 2 Summer mvt 3 Presto
Antonio Vivaldi - Autumn, Second Movement (Adagio molto)
Performed by: John Harrison
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: Vivaldi - Four Seasons, 3 Autumn mvt 2 Adagio molto
Antonio Vivaldi - Winter, First Movement (Allegro non molto)
Performed by: John Harrison
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: Vivaldi - Four Seasons, 4 Winter mvt 1 Allegro non molto
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Chopin - Nocturne in F sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2
Performed by: Luke Faulkner
License: CC BY 3.0
Source: Chopin - Nocturne in F sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2
Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1
Performed by: Robin Alciatore
License: Public Domain
Source: Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1
TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION EPISODES
Chris Zabriskie - Heliograph
Performed by: Chris Zabriskie
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: Chris Zabriskie - Heliograph
Chris Zabriskie - Wonder Cycle
Performed by: Chris Zabriskie
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: Chris Zabriskie - Wonder Cycle
Chris Zabriskie - Air Hockey Saloon
Performed by: Chris Zabriskie
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: Chris Zabriskie - Air Hockey Saloon
Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Five
Performed by: Chris Zabriskie
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Five
Chris Zabriskie - Oxygen Garden
Performed by: Chris Zabriskie
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: Chris Zabriskie - Oxygen Garden
Chris Zabriskie - They Call It Nature
Performed by: Chris Zabriskie
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: Chris Zabriskie - They Call It Nature
Chris Zabriskie - Perhaps It Was Not Properly Manufactured
Performed by: Chris Zabriskie
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: Chris Zabriskie - Perhaps It Was Not Properly Manufactured
Award-Winning Novelist, Playwright & Author of Most Widely Used Creative Writing Text in America
There’s a lot of controversy about that idea at the moment, about whether fiction is truly empathic and how much freedom the imagination should have because, as one of my friends says, the imagination is not free. It comes from all of the places that we come from. So it’s a controversial notion, but I am firmly on the side of literature is empathic. In fact, I think that all the arts are empathic because all the arts basically say, ‘Wait a minute. Look at it this way.’ And they allow us to see from some other vantage point than our extremely self-interested selves.
Award-Winning Memoirist, Author & Educator
What interested me about this particular experience is that I didn’t have the language to attach to it in the way I had the language to attach to a later experience that I would have no trouble calling rape, but happened to me and I call Mark in the book. I didn’t know what to call that for the longest time, so I didn’t know what to feel about it, and so as a writer that interests me. When I don’t have the words for something, when I sense that inevitably I’m going to fail.
Writer, Literary Translator, Book Critic & Host of Desi Books Podcast
People talk about the work life, the line between your work and your life and keeping them separate and keeping the balance. For me, it’s always been that my work defines who I am and who I am in my personal life also defines who I am at my workplace. I don’t know how you separate those identities because I take all my belief systems and who I am to my workplace.
The Creative Process: Interviews & Portraits of the World’s Leading Authors & Creative Thinkers
Inspiring Students – Encouraging Reading - Connecting through Stories
The Creative Process exhibition is traveling to universities and museums. The Creative Process exhibition consists of interviews with over 100 esteemed writers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Hilary Mantel, Neil Gaiman, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tobias Wolff, Richard Ford, Junot Díaz, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Faber, T.C. Boyle, Jay McInerney, George Saunders, Geoff Dyer, Dave Eggers, Etgar Keret, Douglas Kennedy, Sam Lipsyte, and Yiyun Li, among others. Artist and interviewer: Mia Funk.
