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Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating

“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.”

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The R&D Lab of Creativity: Inside the Sketchbooks of Beloved Illustrators and Designers

A memory warehouse… a means of detachment… the perfect place to document daydreams.

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How a Cat Boosts Your Creativity

“… the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you.”

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T. S. Eliot on Creativity, with a Rare Reading of the Poet Reading “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

“We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.”

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The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity

“Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view… We are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”

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Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Why Uncertainty Is the Crucible of Creativity

“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”

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How the Gutenberg Press Embodies Combinatorial Creativity

From metallurgy to the division of labor, or why Gutenberg was a typesetting despot.

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So You Want To Be a Writer: Charles Bukowski’s No-Nonsense Antidote to the “Tortured Genius” Mythos of Creativity

“unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it.”

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David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work

“Presuming that there is such a thing as ‘progress’ when it comes to music is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn’t ‘improve.'”

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Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

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Search results for “creativity”

“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.”

A memory warehouse… a means of detachment… the perfect place to document daydreams.

“… the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you.”

“We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.”

“Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view… We are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”

“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”

From metallurgy to the division of labor, or why Gutenberg was a typesetting despot.

“unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it.”

“Presuming that there is such a thing as ‘progress’ when it comes to music is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn’t ‘improve.'”

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

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