#creativity

The function of the artist is to disturb...In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution--the principle of life...He is the creative spirit working in the soul of man. ↗

— Dr. Norman Bethune

#creative-process #creativity #inspirational #revolutionaries #change

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. ↗

— Brené Brown

#authenticity #belonging #courage #creativity #empathy

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking. ↗

— Michael R. LeGault

#thought #work #death

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel. ↗

— Steve Krug

#design #invention #work #design

Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with a future purpose in his mind's eye. Natural selection . . . has no purpose in mind'. I think this distinction is wrong. There is no denying that the human watchmaker is different from the natural one. We humans, by virtue of having memes, can think about cogs, and wheels, and keeping time, in a way that animals cannot. Memes are the mind tools with which we do it. But what memetics shows us is that the processes underlying the two kinds of design are essentially the same. They are both evolutionary processes that give rise to design through selection, and in the process they produce what looks like foresight. ↗

— Susan J. Blackmore

#design #foresight #memetics #design

The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain. ↗

— Lisa St Aubin de Terán

#content #creativity #form #imagination #structure

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live. (Interview, The Paris Review) ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#imagination #writing #imagination

It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#imagination #reading #richelle #richelle-goodrich #writing

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#creativity #inspirations #living #resilience #inspirational

Ingenuity requires creativity. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational