Creativity

Love to create~

🎶Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in 🎶 ~ Leonard Cohen, Anthem

“Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them”

you should collect whatever you fancy. And some things are obvious: images, quotes, facts. But there are non-obvious things that will come in handy one day. Analogies, metaphors, ideas, models, assumptions, habits, patterns, vibes, objects that express ideas, images that evoke occasions, things you don’t understand yet but that you feel will mean

Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)

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When you carve out big blocks of unscheduled time, you’re creating space for exploration. It’s the oxygen of thinking deep and wide. Without it, it’s hard to cultivate the rich intellectual life you’re after.

Greg Wheeler

When Things Don't Work (Because Sometimes They Won't)

Listen, not every Note will be a hit, and that's okay. Here's what to do when a Note flops:

Wait 24 hours
Look at what did work that day
Try again with a different angle
Keep showing up

The secret isn't perfection – it's consistency.

Some of my favorite artists make “to-draw” lists. David Shrigley will make a huge list of fifty things to draw a week in advance. Having the list means he doesn’t have to waste studio time worrying about what to make. “The simple thing I’ve learned over the years is just to have a starting point and once you have a starting point the work seems to... See more

Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon

a line is a dot that went for a walk