Reads tagged with “creativity”

Elizabeth Alexander on How Great Artists Orient Themselves to Light of the World
“Art that speaks to any of us always comes from a very particular place, and then we find ourselves in it in some kind of way.”

Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on the Creative Power of Uncertainty
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.’”

How I Fell in Love with Marianne Moore: Or, Elizabeth Bishop on What Her Eccentric Mentor Taught Her About Writing
“I never left Cumberland Street without feeling happier: uplifted, even inspired, determined to be good, to work harder, not to worry about what other people thought.”

Beethoven’s Lifestyle Regimen and the Secret to His Superhuman Vitality
In praise of “vigorous ablutions with cold water, a scrupulous regard for personal cleanliness, and daily walks immediately after the midday meal.”

Poet, Painter, and Philosopher Kahlil Gibran on Creativity
“There is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed. We all want that little light in us to be taken from under the bushel.”

The Heroism of Being a Contrarian: Jacob Bronowski on the Essential Character Trait of the Creative Person
“The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change.”

Artist Anne Truitt on the Transcendent Sense of “Enough” and the Epiphany That Revealed to Her the Purpose of Art
“I saw myself stretched like brown earth in furrows, open to the sky, well planted, my life as a human being complete.”

Inside Oliver Sacks’s Creative Process: The Beloved Writer’s Never-Before-Seen Manuscripts, Brainstorm Sheets, and Notes on Writing, Creativity, and the Brain
Inside the “buzzing, blooming chaos” of a brilliant mind at work.

Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
“Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy… actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being.”

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