conversational creativity

creativity is but an unfolding conversation

The late eighteenth-century Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches us, “If you want to return to God you must make yourself into a new creation. You can do this with a sigh.”9

Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom

The good thing about conversations is that you realize how little you know.

The worst thing about conversations is that you realize how little you know.

Camilo Moreno-Salamanca on Substack

"Artifacts of humanity" in creative work — in the form of dust, mistakes, and deliberate strokes that flex human engagement — will showcase the human labor spent making a creation. Such artifacts of humanity, alongside Content Credentials that factually articulate how a piece of work was made, will add meaning and scarcity to the work in the eyes... See more

Scott Belsky • The Law of Displacement Speed & Leveraging Artifacts of Humanity

build a world, not an audience — kening zhu

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You don’t ever have to chase magic. You just have to slow down and become present enough for it to reveal itself to you.

مريم حسنا • Tweet

I didn’t care about being well known. I cared about being known well.

When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.

one thing that is truly lifechanging is seeing precisely how haters, hecklers, etc are part of the theatre production. they are a part of the show

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