#creativity

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? ↗

— Robert Hughes

#artists #creativity #entertainment #revolution #art

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things. ↗

— Diana Athill

#creativity #age

There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to draw on. Also, research tells us that creativity brings energy, vitality and good health. ↗

— Sandra A. Cusack

#age

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artists-life #arts-and-humanities #creative-people #creative-process

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it. ↗

— Michael Gungor

#creativity #musicians #worship #art

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them. ↗

— Daniel Smith

#artist #before #believe #best #creativity

What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#life #soul #death

(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) "have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours. ↗

— Bruce Frankel

#inspirational #motivational #reinvention #retirement #successful-aging

Peanut butter is my frenemy. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#adventure #art #being #chance #chaos