Creativity

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

10. Take your artist for a walk, the two of you. A brisk twenty-minute walk can dramatically alter consciousness.

A finished painting is a destination reached.

He said that it’s a very good idea that after you write a little bit, stop and then copy it. Because while you’re copying it, you’re thinking about it, and it’s giving you other ideas. And that’s the way I work. And it’s marvelous, just wonderful, the relationship between working and copying.

Creativity is the ability to feel wonder and the desire to respond to what we find startling.

So I’m asking, What is the change I’m trying to make? And, Who’s it for and what’s it for? And then I ask things like, What’s the medium that will help it get there? Is it a blog post, or a talk? Or is it a book? What box does it fit in? Once I’ve tried to answer those questions then I jump in. Starting a new project is like jumping into a swimming