quotes – swissmiss
Cultivating the awareness to pay attention to when we’re lit up, wondrous, and in flow, or when we’re stifled, numb, and full of dread, is critical to growth.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
Your creative impulse is like the firefly or the butterfly. It can be evasive, but if you follow its flickering light and allow it to take you on a journey, you can catch it.
Latham Thomas • Own Your Glow
Being a creative means embracing the urge to put more of yourself—your identity, personality, and unique way of seeing—into the world, whether it be the way you make your breakfast in the morning or your trick for getting through your morning commute, or the themes that keep coming up among the thousands of photos in your camera roll. When we confo... See more
Spencer Chang • field notes on being a creative [pt. 1]
There's a moment when a person starts fearing the shoddy, half-lived life of indulged anxiety more than the cold millstone of courage, and something instantly changes in them. They become spiritually taller and three times as attractive
form, demonstrates “the complexities with which our brain constructs the world in and around us, because it unifies thought and language, music and imagery in a clear, manageable way, most often with play, pleasure, and emotion.”
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
The Irish poet John O’Donohue once said, “Art is the essence of awareness.”