Paulina Papke
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Paulina Papke
The discussion explores true creativity: legitimizing personal joys and finding significance independently, rather than outsourcing taste to societal norms.
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So if you say to somebody, I'm going to a gallery and I'm going to look at some pictures and I'm going to go, oh, that's very, you know, it's a noble thing to do. If you say, I'm going to take a flight and on the flight, I'm going to open the window and I'm going to look at the clouds and I'm going to really delight in them and I'm going to
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P.E. Moskowitz • A Culture of Introspective Captivity
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns… that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale… that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.
-Bob Dylan