The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain
The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain
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Other Creativity :
- The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
- Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.
- The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
- If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- To ‘see both sides’ of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
- Art lights up the world.
- Make visible what, without you, might perhaps have never been seen.
- Screens make us into passive receivers. Smash the screen and find a pencil and a piece of paper instead.
- Treat challenges as an opportunity to refocus your strategies and open up new horizons.
- Good writing is both what one does and does not say.
- The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.
- Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.
- Subconsciousness is quick and efficient and sometimes can spur creativity.
- Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard
- The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution
- You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
- There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
- Your being in the middle of your imagination turned on is not like a boardroom; it’s like a candy shop.
- Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
