creativity
The artist prays by creating.
— Flannery O’Connor’s “The Enduring Chill”
The way I see it, when you create something you are emulating THE CREATOR. God has many titles in the many faith traditions, and one of them is “the Fashioner.” There used to be nothing and then there was the universe.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Not only is your art a tool for connection with other people, it’s also the ultimate playground to establish your values and move through them. A place where you can play God.
— quote from Anna Howard’s Wild Geese Podcast “Convenience Culture is Killing Our Creative Impulses”
Being a creative means embracing the urge to put more of yourself—your identity, personality, and unique way of seeing—into the world, whether it be the way you make your breakfast in the morning or your trick for getting through your morning commute, or the themes that keep coming up among the thousands of photos in your camera roll. When we... See more
Spencer Chang • field notes on being a creative [pt. 1]
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it’s not the being that matters, but the doing. Instead of being a writer, I just wrote. Instead of being a filmmaker, I made a movie.
A life in constant potential.
