#creative

The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature. A marijuana high can do something for a user similar to what this time-lapse footage does. The enhancement of episodic memory and the acceleration of associative streams of memories can alter and enhance our recognition of patterns in our lives in various ways. If we are presented with quick associative chains of past experiences, we can see a pattern in a body of information that is usually not at once presented to our “inner eye” as such. ↗

— Sebastian Marincolo

#creative #drug #episodic-memory #high #insight

Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

...A person who is headstrong enough to open their eyes and their heart to the full depth and weight of the world is inviting in everything out there - both evil and good, both dark and light, and the sheer bravery of that openness enables them to gain profound insight into the human condition. It also fucks them up. It may even make them more prone to stick their head in an oven than to engage in self-promotional chitchat on Jay Leno. ↗

— Patricia Pearson

#health #humor #inspirational #humor

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends. ↗

— Graham Greene

#creative-process #daily-life #preoccupations #subconscious #superficiality

She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling. ↗

— Ally Condie

#literature #love

How you do money is how you do life. ↗

— Orna Ross

#manifestation #money-happiness #money

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. ↗

— Truman Capote

#music #poetry #writing #music

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#creative works #exists #grand #human #human spirit

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#creative #creative process #off #process #simply

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#because #bit #creative #feel #i