Reads tagged with “creativity”
The Swan and the Blue Sail: Patti Smith on Creativity
“I felt a twinge, a curious yearning, imperceptible to passersby, my mother, the trees, or the clouds.”
The Art of Discovering and Combining: Ada Lovelace on the Nature of the Imagination and Its Two Core Faculties
“It seizes points in common, between subjects having no very apparent connexion, & hence seldom or never brought into juxtaposition.”
Nicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns
“Bravery is always more intelligent than fear, since it is built on the foundation of what one knows about oneself: the knowledge of one’s strength and capacity, of one’s passion.”
John Steinbeck’s Prophetic Dream About How the Commercial Media Machine Is Killing Creative Culture
Half a century before Buzzfeed, a nocturnal epiphany about the greatest threat to art.
William Faulkner on Creativity and the Power of Beginner’s Mind
“Now I realize for the first time what an amazing gift I had: uneducated in every formal sense, without even very literate, let alone literary, companions…”
The 15 Best Books of 2015
Rewarding reflections on time, love, loss, courage, creativity, and other transformations of the heart.
Willa Cather on Productivity vs. Creativity and the Life-Changing Advice That Made Her a Writer
“It’s so foolish to live (which is always trouble enough) and not to save your soul. It’s so foolish to lose your real pleasures for the supposed pleasures of the chase — or the stock exchange.”
Trailblazing Astronomer Vera Rubin on Obsessiveness, Minimizing Obstacles, and How the Thrill of Accidental Discovery Redeems the Terror of Uncertainty
Why all creative endeavor is a matter of “getting hung up on little interesting things.”
Martha Graham on the Life-Force of Creativity and the Divine Dissatisfaction of Being an Artist
“No artist is pleased… There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”
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