Creativity
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Creativity
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been
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THE CREATIVE HABIT by TWYLA THARP
Chapter 5
before you can think out of the box,
you have to start with a box
Everyone has his or her own organizational system. Mine is a box, the kind you can buy at Office Depot for transferring files.
I start every dance with a box. I write the project name on the box, and as the piece progresses I fill it up with
... See moreI 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
13 Creative Commandments:
1. Talent is an important differentiator, but talent needs to put in the hours to excel.
2. Question everything. Question what is good, what is bad, why you like or don't like something. It's more important than ever in an algorithmic industry to play by your own rules.
3. Stand by the work that you make. Do not place
... See more- The creative process is the ability to relate old and new ideas. This means creative thinking is the task of recognizing relationships between concepts.
James Clear • For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps
Artworks don’t manage knowledge—they channel it. It takes time and attention to understand an artwork’s meaning. Each piece demands a process of reconciliation, and a merging of two contexts: the artwork’s own history and the viewer’s private knowledge network. When it’s placed in a new context, its meaning evolves and expands elastically. It... See more
Willa Köerner • A Personal Philosophy of Shared Knowledge
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control... Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”