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Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
What we call creativity is the quality of possessing a healthy mental ecosystem, one that offers fertile ground for a plenitude of ideas. Ideas may also be attracted to particular minds for more specific reasons—for example, an idea may see that other related ideas (members of the same genera or family) have found the mind to be especially suitable... See more
secretorum.life • Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead
Do I want to be told by AI what to write or do I want to hold onto one of the sparks created by my body hurtling through the void?
If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Any kind of accomplishment, or output of creativity, or this amazing thing that you’ve done or been able to reach—it’s hard to take credit for it. It’s more that you just tapped into something that’s already there. You’re just allowing something through, like a connection to whatever channel of creativity you’re tuning into. So, you’re just a condu... See more