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“Lots of people,” as the poet and artist Austin Kleon puts it, “want to be the noun without doing the verb.” To make something great, what’s required is need. As in, I need to do this. I have to. I can’t not.
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Rules for Creative Expansion and Mastery:
You must look at art every day. Never stop the influx of creative inspiration.
You must write every day. Don’t hold your soul inside.
You must create something every day. Release your fullest expression.
You must learn something new every day. Maintain mental stimulation and momentum around your curiosity.
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This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
There comes a time to shape and direct the force we have learned. I asked them, “What are your deep dreams? Write for five minutes.” Many of us don’t know, don’t recognize, avoid our deep dreams. When we write for five, ten minutes we are forced to put down wishes that float around in our mind and that we might not pay attention to. It is an opport
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Anne Gudger Tells Us
Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own peace of mind).
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
First thoughts are the mind reflecting experiences—as close as a human being can get in words to the sunset, the birth, the bobby pin, the crocus.