Reads tagged with “creativity”
Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between Vulnerability and Freedom
“There is more going on than we can see or understand, and we need to find a way to lean into the mystery of things…. and recognise the evident value in doing that, and summon the courage it requires to not always shrink back into the known mind.”
Creativity at the End: Leonard Cohen on Preparing for Death
On that singular moment at the end of life when all creative energy is concentrated and consecrated.
Henry Miller on the Secret to Growth, in Art and in Life
“The reality is always there, and it is preceded by vision. And if one keeps looking steadily the vision crystallizes into fact or deed. There is no escaping it. It doesn’t matter what route one travels.”
What Makes Great Art: The Single Most Important Element in Creative Work
“Art is a miracle, superior to the laws.”
Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Presses the Reset Button of the Brain’s Default Mode Network
“Our everyday experience does not prepare us to assimilate the gaping hugeness of the Grand Canyon or the crashing grandeur of Niagara Falls. We have no response at the ready; our usual frames of reference don’t fit.”
Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
“To have a friend who understands and appreciates your work, one who never lets you down but who becomes more devoted, more reverent, as the years go by, that is a rare experience.”
Virginia Woolf on the Courage to Create Rather Than Cater and the Remedy for Self-Doubt
“One must face the despicable vanity which is at the root of all this niggling and haggling.”
Nick Cave on Songwriting, the Mystery of the Unconscious, and the Sweet Severity of Truth
“Metaphor can create a merciful sense of distance from the cruel idea, or the unspeakable truth, and allow it to exist within us as a kind of poetic radiance, as a work of art.”
Keith Haring on Our Resistance to Change, the Dangers of Certainty, and the Root of Creativity
“To be a victim of change is to ignore its existence.”
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