#creativity

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe ↗

If you're alive, you're creative. ↗

#creativity #encouragement-and-attitude #attitude

All life is death. You don't fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you are capable of. From death, and sorrow, and compromise, you create. This is what it means, you finally realize, to be alive. ("The Chambered Fruit") ↗

— M. Rickert

#creativity #death #imagination #life #art

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#creativity #music #songwriting #art

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#creativity #faith #god #faith

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot. ↗

— Eric Maisel

#thought #beauty

You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#euphemism #labels #creativity

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#creativity

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. ↗