Creativity

Love to create~

The desire to create for its own sake is what it means to be human.

Thomas Bevan • Our Tools and Us

I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too. Plenty of space. I decided that I would need to build an expansive enough interior life that my fear and my creativity could peacefully coexist, since it appeared that they would always be together.

Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“When in doubt, follow your curiosity. It never lies, and it knows more than you do about what's worth paying attention to." —Paul Graham

Exploring the internet together should be like exploring a vast old library with your friends. Wandering down different shelves, skimming the pages that catch your eye, and occasionally one of you hollers in a whispering voice, "come check this out!"

Azlen • Tweet

A finished painting is a destination reached.

Draw to discover what you see. Write to discover what you think.

Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

We perceive through images. We think in metaphors. We learn by stories. We create with fantasy.

Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”

― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer