“I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.” IfsPersonsMightVisionCreativeParticularArtisticCombinationSincerelyContradictoryStanceCreative LifeCumulativeArtistic Vision Author:George Saunders
“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.” TryingMindIdeasMotivationalPurposeOrderProcessWalksCreativeStageParticularBrokenEssentialsFlowCombinationBoredomUnconsciousPocketsManifestStillnessCreative ProcessMuseBikeFragmentsFloatsDaydreamingClicksProcessingUnconscious Mind Author:Maria Popova
“Marijuana, for me in particular, releases my creative juices. It doesn't work well for performing, but for creating nothing works better.” WellsCreativeParticularCreatingReleasePerformingMarijuanaJuiceCreative Juices Author:Steve "Lips" Kudlow
“It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.” TwoSpiritGivenStarsCreativityCreativeSawsGreaterParticularAspectPerfectionAbsolutesMoodCosmosMakersBarren Author:Olaf Stapledon
“I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).” PeopleShouldRememberCareersCreativeParticularIndustrySucceedHotConvincedProductiveThriveShould IBusiness SuccessConnectingOne WordMantrasAdoptingCreative PowerHorizontalUnleashing Author:Po Bronson
“Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.” StoriesEarthArtistSongCreativeParticularUniqueSignaturesIrreplaceable Book:The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See Source: The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See
“I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansSufferingUnderstandingCreativeConditionsPossibilityParticularGayEmpathyActiveMutualHuman ConditionSolidarityHomophobiaGay Men Author:Adrienne Rich
“[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .” PastMy OwnCreativeEmotionalParticularInstantImitationVitalityImaginativePast And Present Author:Barbara Hepworth
“I think that there is an infinite creative force that generates all consciousness and all matter and we are all connected and if you align yourself with this infinite creative force then you can be positive and you can be beautiful, I don't think its a person or god, I don't believe in any particular doctrine or dogma, only that humanity is connected.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsMatterBeautifulHumanityForceConsciousnessCreativeParticularInfiniteDon't BelieveConnectedDoctrineDogmaBeing Positive Author:Russell Brand
“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.” LittlesStatesHappensCultureProcessPleasureConsciousnessCreativeParticularDrugSkillsInstinctThings HappenCreative ProcessMaking LoveMixturesCocktailsActs Of LoveUnconsciousness Author:Francis Bacon
“It should be pointed out that none of Cardew's works ever gave total freedom to the performer. The instructions were a guide which focused each individual's creative instinct on a problem to be solved - how to interpret a particular system of notation using one's own musical background and attitudes.” ShouldProblemIndividualAttitudeCreativeParticularInstinctMusicalFocusedGuidesBackgroundsPerformersInstruction Author:John Tilbury
“So the first thing to be remembered: don't confine creativity to anything in particular. A man is creative - and if he is creative, whatsoever he does, even if he walks, you can see in his walking there is creativity. Even if he sits silently and does nothing, even non-doing will be a creative act. Buddha sitting under the Bodhi Tree doing nothing is the greatest creator the world has ever known.” IfsMenWorldFirstsDoeWalksKnownCreativityCreativeTreeParticularWalkingSittingCreatorRememberedDoing Nothing Author:Rajneesh
“...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.” ThinkingWayAudienceCreativeParticularGeniusConcertsComposerWay Of ThinkingCreative Genius Author:Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
“We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.” ThinkingFeelsImportantMomentsEnergyCreativePiecesStageParticularConversationMusicianHappeningsStructureVisibleDefinite Author:Lisa Gerrard
“To me, music and songwriting is... part of the intriguing thing is the creative process; you know, the creative thought process. Relying on that... there is some sort of inspiration there and you can't always put your finger on where it comes from. So, it's always been important for me to have my own thing and, even though I'm inspired by and influenced by many different musicians and styles of music, I was very determined early on to have my own thing. So when I sit down to write I don't necessarily have a particular narrative or message in mind. I'm interested in language and in words.” KnowsWritingMindImportantDifferentInspirationLanguageProcessMy OwnCreativeStyleParticularMessagesMusicianFingersInspiredDeterminedNarrativeSongwritingCreative ProcessIntriguingThought ProcessCreative Thought Author:Page Hamilton