The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity
believe that the original human impulse for creativity was born out of pure trickster energy. Of course it was! Creativity wants to flip the mundane world upside down and turn it inside out, and that’s exactly what a trickster does best.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
Creativity wants to flip the mundane world upside down and turn it inside out, and that’s exactly what a trickster does best.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control... Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
A practice all your own
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Julia Cameron
Trickster Makes This World, an excellent book about such acts of disruptive imagination, scholar and writer Lewis Hyde
Rob Walker • The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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Motivation for Creative People: How to Stay Creative While Gaining Money, Fame, and Reputation
Mark McGuinness • 1 highlight
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In order to move from the realm of shadows into the light of creativity, shadow artists must learn to take themselves seriously. With gentle, deliberate effort, they must nurture their artist child. Creativity is play, but for shadow artists, learning to allow themselves to play is hard work.