Creativity
Love to create~
Creativity
Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write and edit or sculpt and polish or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from
... See moreKevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
What solitude gives you is an opportunity to study what personal curiosity feels like in its undiluted form, free from the interference of other considerations. Being familiar with the character of this feeling makes it easier to recognize if you are reacting to the potential in the work you are doing in a genuinely personal way, or if you are
... See moreHenrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
think of your ideas as people / your children. I want my ideas to go hang out with other ideas, I don't want them hanging out in a room full of schedules and todo lists
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Monica Lee-Henell, an artist friend of mine, has some great advice on how to use Pinterest. She creates a bunch of boards themed around things she’s drawn to, like landscapes, or portraits, or the color yellow. Then she pins like a crazy person in each of the categories! You might go into this thinking “a portrait is a portrait,” but once you’ve
... See moreLisa Congdon • Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
Acknowledge that making art is unpredictable, bumpy, and sometimes painful, but do it anyway.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
Being a creative means embracing the urge to put more of yourself—your identity, personality, and unique way of seeing—into the world, whether it be the way you make your breakfast in the morning or your trick for getting through your morning commute, or the themes that keep coming up among the thousands of photos in your camera roll. When we... See more
Spencer Chang • field notes on being a creative [pt. 1]
In order to be an artist, I must:
Show up at the page. Use the page to rest, to dream, to try.
Set small and gentle goals and meet them.
Remember that it is far harder and more painful to be a blocked artist than it is to do the work.
Remember that it is my work to do the work, not judge the work.
