“Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.” KnowsWorldImportantFeelingsCreativityPerceptionPhotographyInstrumentsGapsDuality Book:Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs Source: Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs
“The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand everything about yourself, about perception, about creativity, about behavior, about relationships. By understanding consciousness, you have the ability to create anything in your world. And you have the ability to influence also the collective consciousness to not only bring about personal healing, but social transformation, and ultimately healing our planet, which happens to be extremely wounded.” WorldRealityRunningUnderstandingAbilityHealingConsciousnessCreativityInfluenceBehaviorPerceptionUltimateTransformationAbout Yourself Author:Deepak Chopra
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” MenShouldSpiritEmotionCreativityCreativeProducePerspectiveConfidencePerceptionPerceiveSelf ExpressionBe EncouragedNo ConfidenceBuilding ConfidenceDictatingCreative SpiritPerception Of Others Author:Ansel Adams
“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.” PeopleArtistVisionCreativityCreativeSeeingPerceptionObservationAweObserving Author:William S. Burroughs
“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!” UnderstandingImaginationAbilityCreativityPracticeKnowingGeniusPerceptionResearchExtraordinaryProofBoundariesInventionCertaintyLimitationFear Of FailureConstraints Author:Patricia Polacco
“Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.” PeopleWorldMindFirstsArtTodayImaginationVisionCreativityTheoryPerceptionBuiltStructureCarpe DiemRocketsGeometryPyramidsCathedralsCarpeThermodynamics Author:Eugene S. Ferguson
“But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.” RealityCertainPrinciplesCreativityCreativePurePerceptionMathematicsMath Book:Essays in Science Source: Essays in Science
“I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.” WayLightSeemsSpaceCreativitySeeingProductsPerceptionPhotography Author:James Turrell