#creativity

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. ↗

— Julia Cameron

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Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be. ↗

— Donald Miller

#facing-fear #resistance #life

To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so widely, and some people are so humourless, so uncharitable, and so absurdly wrong-headed, that one would probably do far better to relax and enjoy life than worry oneself to death trying to instruct or entertain a public which will only despise one's efforts, or at least feel no gratitude for them. ↗

— Thomas More

#creativity #writing #death

I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#education #wisdom #education

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#arts #creativity #art

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you. ↗

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#beauty

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#creative-process #creative-reading #creative-thinking #creativity #editing

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. ↗

— Henry Ford

#history #innovation #men

You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are. ↗

— Don Draper

#mad-men #process #men

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living ↗

— John Cage

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