“To vary your inspiration, consider varying your inputs. Turn the sound off to watch a film, listen to the same song on repeat, read only the first word of each sentence in a short story, arrange stones by size or color, learn to lucid dream. Break habits. Look for differences. Notice connections.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Zoom in and obsess. Zoom out and observe. We get to choose.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“The magic is not in the analyzing or the understanding. The magic lives in the wonder of what we do not know.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Turning something from an idea
into a reality
can make it seem smaller.
It changes from unearthly to earthly.
The imagination has no limits.
The physical world does.
The work exists in both.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
into a reality
can make it seem smaller.
It changes from unearthly to earthly.
The imagination has no limits.
The physical world does.
The work exists in both.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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