Creativity 🪄
The object isn’t to make art,
it’s to be in that wonderful state
which makes art inevitable.
Robert Henri
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act
Flow
As she lost consciousness of outer things ... her mind kept throwing up from its depths, scenes, and names, and sayings, and memories and ideas, like a fountain spurting.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Farnam Street • Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
Don’t prepare to create. Create to prepare.
Notion Grizzly • Tweet
Creativity thrives in stillness and nothingness;
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
As Austin Kleon said,
Creativity is about connections, and connections are not made by siloing everything off into its own space. New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place.
Creativity is about connections, and connections are not made by siloing everything off into its own space. New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place.
Sari Azout • Problems Sublime Solves—at Least for Me
How do we pick up on a signal that can neither be heard nor be defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it. A space so free of the normal overpacked condition of our minds that it functions as a vacuum.
