Creativity
the art of creativity
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Creativity
“Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected, maybe - vulnerability and freedom.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
You may think that if your studio is tidy, it will free you up to be more efficient, and therefore, you will produce more. Maybe that will help you in the execution stage of your work if you’re, say, a printmaker pulling prints, but it won’t help you come up with an interesting design for the next print. It’s always a mistake to equate productivity
... See morethe accumulation of learning, an inevitable byproduct of the process of growing up, takes us not closer to but further away from our creative source
Maria Popova • Beethoven’s Advice on Being an Artist: His Touching Letter to a Little Girl Who Sent Him Fan Mail
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Whenever I’m feeling uncreative I watch this John Mayer video and reminds me that you become creative by creating. There’s no thinking yourself into creativity.
Have watched probably 100 times.
https://t.co/6np9af8r5g
Nick Dillertwitter.comThe Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
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This is an insight that has been repeated by artists, too. Pablo Picasso: “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” James Baldwin: “Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.” Bob Dylan: “To be creative you’ve got to be... See more
Substack • Notes | Substack
"To do the work, we need to rest, to read, to reconnect. It is the invisible labor that makes creative life possible."
When I was younger, I was skateboarding a lot. I was listening to music and skateboarding. There were two songs, that are widely different: DJ Shadow’s “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt,” and Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right.” And I remember skateboarding to them and they made me just stop. And the world felt so cool. I would look... See more
On redefining what it means to be successful
Creativity is the world’s greatest recycling program. I like how Nike designer Tinker Hatfield framed it, via @bpoppenheimer newsletter:
“When you sit down to create something...what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.” https://t.co/OOvK9fSPdZ
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