Creativity
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Creativity
“Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them”
“Serious art comes from serious play”
Sterling Crispin
@sterlingcrispin
The 'problem with AI art' stems from deep rooted cultural, psychological, and educational differences.
Some key issues:
- Most people mistakenly conflate craft with art.
- Most don't know the last hundred years of art history, or intentionally reject it outright.
- Most people fear change, and adapting your model of th... See more
@sterlingcrispin
The 'problem with AI art' stems from deep rooted cultural, psychological, and educational differences.
Some key issues:
- Most people mistakenly conflate craft with art.
- Most don't know the last hundred years of art history, or intentionally reject it outright.
- Most people fear change, and adapting your model of th... See more
Sterling Crispin • Tweet
When you carve out big blocks of unscheduled time, you’re creating space for exploration. It’s the oxygen of thinking deep and wide. Without it, it’s hard to cultivate the rich intellectual life you’re after.
Greg Wheeler
Ideas sometimes seem to need days or weeks or months to get to a point where they feel fully formed. If you try to force a solution to a problem into a preset window of time, you will almost certainly reach a suboptimal solution.
I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one d... See more
I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one d... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
Create sacred physical and/or psychological space to make your art. This may be a corner in your bedroom with your laptop and an altar, a garage with an AM/FM radio, or an office with windows that open. “Space” could be your walk after dinner or the half hour you take in the morning to journal, a weekend in a motel with Wi-Fi, or a yearly silent re
... See moreDanielle LaPorte • The Fire Starter Sessions
Take two or three of those curiosities—the ideas that develop from the things you know and learn—and combine them to form a new concept. Don’t force it, but find existing overlaps and nooks and crannies that help them naturally fit together.