Creativity
Love to create~
Creativity
Creativity thrives in stillness and nothingness;
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
It's a false binary to say “artists are messy” or to assume that those with well-organized and cleaned studios somehow aren’t doing creative work. We all come to our creative practice in our own way. A societally-induced value judgement on “clean” vs. “messy” has however lodged itself deep within us.
The Mess of a Creative Space
the creative process typically involves three steps:
Collecting: Gathering interesting ideas
Connecting: Drawing connections and organizing materials
Creating: Producing something new
Collecting: Gathering interesting ideas
Connecting: Drawing connections and organizing materials
Creating: Producing something new
- 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
Everyone is an artist. Everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. Consciousness is always consciousness of something. There is no fixed world out there, the world is coming toward you and you are coming toward it. And between the two of you, you actually construct the world. It’s never as given as it
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Many good ideas look bad at first.
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
We might start off by paraphrasing Oscar Wilde’s poem, substituting the word ‘Art’ for ‘Love’.
Art will fly if held too lightly,
Art will die if held too tightly,
Lightly, tightly, how do I know
Whether I’m holding or letting Art go?