The Creative Mind
the inner workings and challenges of life as a creative
sari and
The Creative Mind
“Listening is how I started. I didn't start when I was a piano player. I didn't start as a composer. I started as a listener.” RIP
When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
andrea and
Don’t Try To Map Out Of The Whole 9 Innings
SIX at 6: The Boiler Room, 20 Years of Not Writing, Nightmares of Failure, Expectations of Success, Chair Upholstery, and The Delusion of Perfection - Billy Oppenheimer
just start. don’t spend time paralyzed by the delusion of perfection
Our creations are more impactful when we’re focused on using personal experience as a guiding force as opposed to being objectively accurate.
Humans don’t care about perfect because we’re far from it.
-common discourse
