Maggie Smith: Creativity Is Our Birthright As Human Beings
make time for beauty, the universe miraculously expands to welcome it. You find yourself picking up the guitar you hadn’t tuned since college and noodling around. Suddenly you can play “House of the Rising Sun” again, and it sounds better than ever, seasoned as it is by all those years of unfortunate choices and sweet suffering. Instead of watching
... See moreMirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
Art requires access to the imagination, a notoriously difficult place to visit. The imagination fuels an idea. The artist acts urgently, often impulsively, on that idea but brings conscious rigor to the evaluation of what the imagination has spewed. Ultimately, experience, intellect, insight, and drive enable them to shape the work and then to edit
... See moreAdam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
Creative aliveness consists in reclaiming a larger creative canvas woven into the fabric of our lives. It starts by asking yourself: what makes you come alive creatively? And how can you inject more creativity into your daily life?
In the Western world, creativity was for a very long time considered the realm of divinities. Whether they received the... See more
In the Western world, creativity was for a very long time considered the realm of divinities. Whether they received the... See more
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Creative Aliveness: Turning Life Into a Creative Adventure
The part of our brains with which we navigate the challenges of the everyday world is uneasy in the unpredictable sphere of art making. We cannot squeeze ourselves through the eye of the needle to reach the land of wild creativity whilst saddled to the frontal cortex, whose job it is to evaluate external circumstances and regulate appropriate behav
... See moreMirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust—and those elements are universally accessible.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
It is play, not properness, that is the central artery, the core, the brain stem of creative life. The impulse to play is an instinct. No play, no creative life. Be good, no creative life. Sit still, no creative life. Speak, think, act only demurely, little creative juice. Any group, society, institution, or organization that encourages women to re
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