Creativity

via THE CREATIVE HABIT by TWYLA THARP:

Sadly, some people never get beyond the box stage in their creative life. We all know people who have announced that they’ve started work on a project-say, a book—but some time passes, and when you politely ask how it’s going, they tell you that they’re still researching. Weeks, months, years pass and they prod

Big ideas don’t show up fully formed, standing in our path. They need to be coaxed unto the open through persistent inquiry and exploration.

Ideas sometimes seem to need days or weeks or months to get to a point where they feel fully formed. If you try to force a solution to a problem into a preset window of time, you will almost certainly reach a suboptimal solution.

I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one d... See more

Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas

We cannot know when the time will be ripe for any particular idea. The task of creators is to keep options alive and open and not to be too constrained by the limitations of a present that may be suddenly transformed—by a depression, war, a dramatic collapse of political trust, or a pandemic.

Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination

In nature, some seeds lie dormant in anticipation of the season most conducive to their growth. This is true of art as well. There are ideas whose time has not yet come. Or perhaps their time has come, but you are not yet ready to engage with them. Other times, developing a different seed may shed light on a dormant one.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

There’s a time for certain ideas to arrive, and they find a way to express themselves through us.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller

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