Creativity
Love to create~
Creativity
the relational thread of your art (Allen Arnold)
It doesn’t begin with you and a canvas, screen, stage, or microphone. It starts with you and God. The reason you love to create is because God created you that way. Not so you’d pursue it alone…but with him as Creator and Father. The life you have with God while creating will determine the life of
... See more"Which of these has more life? Which of these is more a mirror of my self? Does this object make me feel my humanity is expanding—or contracting?"
— Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order
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... 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... See more
Sterling Crispin • Tweet
get comfortable with feeling frustrated and keep going. It’s part of being an artist.
Lisa Congdon • Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
The artist Gina Malek had made a similar suggestion …. "Just walk up to a piece and try to think of five things that it brings up," she suggested. Not five things that the art is about. The observations don't need to be grandiose, like this probes masculinity in the postinternet age. Just, what are five things you notice, either in the work or in
... See moreBianca Bosker • Get the Picture
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been
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Craft doesn't require innovation or a big show, but the curiosity to consistently study your materials and practice your techniques. It's knowing that big moments are made of tiny ones. That every second counts. For a chef, it might be peeling the mushroom skin even if clients will barely notice. For a designer, it might be organizing files even if... See more
Craft
The most important advantage of writing is that it helps us confront ourselves when we do not understand something as well as we would like to believe.