Search results for “creative”
Patti Smith on Prayer, the Love of Books, and How Illness Expands the Field of Creative Awareness
“Lying deep within myself … I seized a most worthy souvenir, a shard of heaven’s kaleidoscope.”
Louise Bourgeois on Art, Integrity, the Trap of False Humility, and the Key to Creative Confidence
“To be an artist is a guarantee to your fellow humans that the wear and tear of living will not let you become a murderer.”
Wild Ideas: The Creative Problem-Solving Strategies of Different Animals, in Illustrated Dioramas
From procrastinating pigeons to counting bears to dung beetles that navigate by the stars.
Legendary Victorian Art Critic John Ruskin on the Value of Imperfection and How Manual Labor Confers Dignity Upon Creative Work
“It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.”
Kierkegaard on Popular Opinion, the Petty Jealousies of Criticism, and the Only Cure for Embitterment in Creative Work
“I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life’s mean pettinesses.”
The American Scholar: Emerson’s Superb Speech on the Life of the Mind, the Art of Creative Reading, and the Building Blocks of Genius
“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.”
Michelangelo on Struggle and Creative Integrity
“I do not know which is better, the ill that helps or the good that harms.”
The Aesthetic of Silence: Susan Sontag on Art as a Form of Spirituality and the Paradoxical Role of Silence in Creative Culture
“The art of our time is noisy with appeals for silence. A coquettish, even cheerful nihilism. One recognizes the imperative of silence, but goes on speaking anyway.”
John Waters’s Spectacular RISD Commencement Address on Creative Rebellion and the Artist’s Task to Cause Constructive Chaos
“Refuse to isolate yourself. Separatism is for losers.”
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