creative vision
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.
Stephen Nachmanovitch • Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
The creative process is a spiritual path. This adventure is about us, about the deep self, the composer in all of us, about originality, meaning not that which is all new, but that which is fully and originally ourselves.
Stephen Nachmanovitch • Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
We said that the artist has a subject, a voice, a point of view, a medium of expression, and a style. But where do these come from? How do we find our own? In my experience the process is neither rational nor logical. It can't be commanded. It can't be rushed. It is not subject to the will or the ego. We are born, I believe, with everything we are
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
My creative voice, in all stages of development, is my friend.
Looking for a Pep Talk From the Past
"People feel lost when there are no clear models to show them what to feel or what to experiment with. I heard once that there are three stages in an artist’s search. One is imitation—imitating everything that you think is cool and groovy, and you want to identify with. Then once you imitate, you take those imitations and you experiment with blendi
... See morecreativity is rooted in our bones. It is the way we talk to one another, the walks we go on, the small smiles in the grocery store. To be human is to be creative! To be creative is to be alive! It’s like how a beaver builds a dam or an ant builds a hill or a bee makes honey - it’s innate. We make things too, because it’s innate!
Kyla Scanlon • The Year Narrative Ate Reality
We feel better: awake, fulfilled, whole. By creating regularly, we access a new source of vitality. Turning an idea in your head into a tangible reality is one of life’s great satisfactions, whether the end result is a story, a photograph, a meal, or a business.
Chase Jarvis • Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
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