#creativity

A Gift for You I send you... A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is a cabinet near the front door, where your favorite meals appear, several times a day. Desserts are plentiful and calorie free. The closet is stocked with colorful robes and pajamas, and a painting in the bedroom slides aside to reveal a plasma television screen with every movie you've ever wanted to watch. A wooden mailbox at the end of the lane is filled daily with beguiling invitations to tea parties, horse-and-carriage rides, theatrical performances, and violin concerts. There is no obligation or need to respond. You sleep deeply and peacefully each night, and feel profoundly healthy. This cottage is yours to return to at any time. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#creativity #dreaming #procrastination #writing #art

From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#creativity #dreaming #procrastination #writing #art

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#being #commercial #creativity #england #great

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. ↗

— Jean Dubuffet

#imagination #insanity #lack #me #means

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#because #creativity #doing #everyone #fun

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#bothered #creativity #else #focusing #granted

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#creativity #enemy #lousy #must #self-conscious

True creativity often starts where language ends. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#ends #language #often #starts #true

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#blank #blank page #creativity #empty #faced

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#creativity #get #help #i