The Act of Creating

From the legendary music producer, a master in the art of helping others connect with the sources of their own creativity, comes a book wonderfully forged over many years with a profound insight into creativity and life directed at everyone.

"I set out to write a book about how to create a great work of art. Instead, it turned out to be a book about how to Be."

Great music producers are often recognised for a unique sound that only they are capable of achieving. Rick Rubin is known for that and something else: for knowing how to create a space in which artists of different genres and traditions reconnect with their deep identity and what they really have to offer the world. Rubin has made it a practice to help people transcend self-imposed expectations and reconnect with a state of innocence where the surprising becomes inevitable.

Over the years, Rubin has thought a lot about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, and has learned that being an artist depends not so much on a particular outcome, but on how we relate to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life and we can all make that space bigger. In fact, there are few human responsibilities that are more important than that.

The act of creating is a beautiful and generous course that illuminates the artist's path as a route we can all follow. This book distils the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that has the power to create moments - and lives - of joy and transcendence within everyone's reach.

Publisher: Sexto Piso