#creativity

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#creativity #individuality #courage

I know that life is busy and hard and that there's crushing pressure to just settle down and get a real job and khaki pants and a haircut. But don't. Please don't. Please keep believing that life can be better, brighter, broader because of the art that you make. Please keep demonstrating the courage that it takes to swim upstream in a world that prefers putting away for retirement to putting pen to paper, that chooses practicality over poetry, that values you more for going to the gym than going to the deepest places in your soul. Please keep making your art for people like me, people who need the magic and imagination and honesty of great art to make the day-to-day world a little more bearable. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#creativity #writing #art

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#minimalism #age

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#love #age

Creativity takes courage. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#creativity #takes

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#craft #creativity #music #writing #art

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#creativity #leonardo-da-vinci #art

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please. ↗

— Hugh MacLeod

#art #crayons #creativity #humor #writing

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#creation #creativity #criticism #art

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#creativity #motivational #picasso #rules #writing