“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
—Carl Jung
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” —Carl Jung
“The whole difference between construction and creation,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “is this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”54
Stephen Nachmanovitch • Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
The most creative (when in this mood) as being childlike. For they were able to play with ideas… to explore them… not for any immediate practical purpose but just for enjoyment. Play for its own sake.
JamesClear.com • "Creativity in Management"
Play is the work of the child and it is also the work of the artist.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of thought, feeling, action, and reaction that arise within us, and to put these together in a unique response, expression, or message that carries moment, passion, and meaning.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
“People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.” – Trung Phan quoting Carl Jung. This is the greatest explanation for memes
Jim O'Shaughnessy • Smart Threads and Dumb Memes | Trung Phan on Infinite Loops with Jim O’Shaughnessy • Podcast Notes
Creativity is born of limitations, not freedom