Creativity
Love to create~
Creativity
Rules for Creative Expansion and Mastery:
You must look at art every day. Never stop the influx of creative inspiration.
You must write every day. Don’t hold your soul inside.
You must create something every day. Release your fullest expression.
You must learn something new every day. Maintain mental stimulation and momentum around your curiosity.
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- Take your artist for a walk, the two of you. A brisk twenty-minute walk can dramatically alter consciousness.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way
Play can easily be dismissed as childish, irresponsible and unbecoming of the seriousness required of us modern achievement-subjects. But the demand for playful living is really a demand to reject the conditions of the achievement society. Embracing play is a bold defiance against the relentless productivity mantra of the achievement society. But
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working — Pablo Picasso
The first step in any creative journey is collecting sparks of inspiration—the ideas, quotes, images, and links you love and don't want to forget.
But here’s the thing: When you find something that resonates, its use is not always immediately apparent. A line in a song might be the seed for your next coding project or inspire the title for the book... See more
But here’s the thing: When you find something that resonates, its use is not always immediately apparent. A line in a song might be the seed for your next coding project or inspire the title for the book... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Sister Corita Kent used pop art to make her views on worship and religion accessible to those who were not devout catholic. In the same Pop artist at the time used similar techniques to make the art world more accessible to the masses.
Take a walk or a drive. Book a window seat on a plane. Sit outside—in your backyard, on a park bench, at a café. Or make sure your writing desk (or reading chair) is next to a window with an appealing view. Take notes as you move through your day, or imagine what the speaker, narrator, or character might hear, smell, taste, or touch: the birds
... See moreMaggie Smith • Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
an invitation to experiment
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
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