creative vision
creativity 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
"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 moreHuman beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.
Maria Popova • The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
our own creativity should draw upon the wisdom of our wounds if it wants to reach others in a meaningful way.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
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
If your intention is to ‘make art’, then maybe you’ll get a couple of good paintings. You may even get a show or two.
But I think of it this way: I don’t make art. I make things . Framing it like that keeps what I’m doing from becoming precious. And that’s a good thing, because to be precious is to be timid—and that’s bad. Creativity requires attent
... See moreKieran • Following the White-Hot Fire Inside of You
Within every artist, there's a child emptying a box of crayons onto the floor, searching for just the right color to draw the sky. It might be violet, olive, or burnt orange.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
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
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.