how to cultivate creativity

Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

— Charles Mingus via Daily Creative podcast

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Sari Azout • a moodboard on creating through the fear

I am convinced that when we’re drawn to someone else’s creative output, it’s not so much the work that attracts us as it is the energy that drives it — the confidence, emotionality, or sheer authenticity that underlies its production.

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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

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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Jack London

A quote by Jack London

It is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.

Maria Popova • Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community

The sunshine of life springs from twin suns. We may call them love and art. We may call them connection and creativity. Both can take many forms. Both, if they are worth their salt and we ours, ask us to show up as our whole selves. Both are instruments of unselfing.