“Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.” SoulNightDarkViewsCreativityMajorityCrowdsChosenSpellsAvenuesFloweringProximity Book:A Passion for Truth Source: A Passion for Truth
“Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.” ThinkingStatesMovingDarkCreativityMiddleNew YorkBedAreasSouthLabelsIslandsMassiveFlawsChicagoSouthernUrbanRomanticismFertileWeirdnessKentuckyProgressivismLouisville Author:Jim James
“The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.” FirstsEndsDarkStepsCreativityCreativeSightBusyFearfulFirst StepsChaotic Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.” ThinkingCountryDreamArtistDarkCreativityCreativeImpulse Author:Anne Rivers Siddons
“But, it takes some of the characters to some very dark places, and they start doing things that they might not do, if they were in regular circumstances. Their true humanity comes out - the good and the bad. Something else that was fun was that every director would come in so excited to go with their own creativity.” IfsCharacterMightHumanityFunDarkCreativityCircumstancesDirectorsExcitedDark Places Author:Kyra Zagorsky
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” LifeInspirationalActionBeautifulSuccessWomenDarkCreativityCourageTeachingTalentFemaleBe CreativeEncouragingBad AssHave CourageBe CourageousCreativity And InnovationDark PlacesRareInspire CreativityNatural TalentTalent And GeniusGifts And TalentsPersonal CourageTalented PersonAmazing TalentTalent And Passion Author:Erica Jong
“I always tell people that my creativity lies in the belly of the beast and that's exactly what it is. A lot of people think that 'dark' is a bad concept, but I think it's a beautiful thing because that's mostly where your best work comes from. You can say it's dark, but you splash so much colour on it from what's inside you. Everybody always puts negative connotations on the idea of darkness.” PeopleThinkingIdeasBeautifulLyingDarkCreativityDarknessConceptsNegativeBeastColourBeautiful ThingsBellyBest WorkConnotation Author:Jlin
“Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.” LifeInspirationalSometimesSeemsDarkCreativityDesignAngelDestructionArtisticWrestlingTemperamentArt And CreativityArtists And CreativityBattlegroundArtistic CreativityArtistic Temperament Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” KnowsLifeMayLittlesMomentsFormArtistFaithDiesNextDarkCreativityKnow HowKnowingDiscoveryLeapNot KnowingProblem Solving Author:Agnes de Mille
“It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.” IfsThinkingWayLongStillsWholeLightDifferencesDarkRoomsSecretMistakeCreativityShiningGreat ChangeDark RoomTeachable Author:Vernon Howard