Creativity
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Creativity
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instagram.comTHE 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 moreRussell writes that “for hundreds of years, and on many matters of supreme importance, art had the edge over all other sources.” It gave out the truth about this world and the next one. It encapsulated history. It told us what people wiser than ourselves were thinking. It told the stories that everyone wanted to hear…answered the great riddles,
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
How does one think originally in this day and age?
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
Life is about using the whole box of crayons.
The Creator’s Freedom Prayer
Holy Spirit, hover over this blank page.
Holy Spirit, brood over this unfinished idea.
Holy Spirit, rest on me as You rested on Jesus.
Where You are, there is freedom—
let that freedom mark my work today.
The creative person knows that nearly anything they encounter in the course of daily life can be fodder for creative solutions.
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight
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