“Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.” TryingI CanPastArtistCertainIntentionSpendingBoredomGlancesPlague Author:Philip Guston
“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