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June 17, 2010
To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
Source: 10 Questions for Viggo Mortensen by TIME
Labels: Creativity
June 11, 2010
Creativity is just connecting things.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough …
Via: Thinking aloud by Inaki Escudero
Labels: Creativity
May 30, 2010
“It’s amazing how, when you’re alone and things are quiet, hours can seem like days. By the end of day two, I noticed that I was relaxing into the rhythms of my own intellect in relation to the time of day. Without meetings to attend or emails to answer, I discovered that the early hours of the morning were ideal for creating, thinking, and synthesizing. Midday was great for physical exertion and a break from mental tasks. The latter part of my day was best spent seeking inspiration by reading or listening to music. I saw that most of my …
Source: The Sabbatical: Why should you take time off?
Labels: Creativity
April 27, 2010
If you want to be artistic, if you want to be creative, if you want to express yourself, you can’t let things get in your way, and drugs are included in that.
Source: Back From the Depths, Rebuilding a Career
Labels: Creativity | Sobriety
March 31, 2010
Reading The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp made me realized some very important points about creativity. I’ll try to share them all with you in this post, but for the whole experience, read the book. It’s a fascinating account of the work and discipline behind the craft of the creation of ideas.
Everything that happens to me is usable. Everything feeds into creativity, but you need to be prepare, to see it, to retain it and to use it. You need to get ready to create.
No one starts a creative project without a certain amount of fear. Write your …
Source: The Creative Habit
Via: Inaki Escudero, Creative Director and Writer
Labels: Creativity
March 20, 2010
John Warner: “Is there ever any anxiety over your own creative MO? That’s been one of my most constant struggles, a love of starting things, less interest in finishing them. I tell myself it’s better than working on something where I’m not feeling inspired, but it took me almost 15 years of trying to finally finish a novel at least good enough to take a shot at publication. Aren’t we all struggling with a sense that we might be doing it ‘wrong?’ Or with age, is peace and wisdom achieved?”
Philip Graham: “Oh, I’m much more relaxed about the whole process than I used to be. Basically, all that matters is what appears on the page, I don’t worry so much anymore about publishing schedules. I’m primarily interested in the trial and error of forging the patterns of my imagination’s fingerprint; the grimy marks it may leave on the world comes later.”
Source: A Conversation With Writer Philip Graham by John Warner
Labels: Creativity
March 8, 2010
Never once in my life did my parents say, ‘What you’re doing is a waste of time.’ … I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system so if you’re out there and you’re listening, listen to me: You want to be creative? Get out there and do it, it’s not a waste of time.
Labels: Creativity
February 27, 2010
Source: Designing Design by Kenya Hara, Designer and Curator
Via: Designer’s Library
Labels: Creativity
Photograph by Michelle Litvin
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