Reads tagged with “creativity”
W.H. Auden on the Political Power of Art and the Crucial Difference Between Party Issues and Revolutionary Issues
“In our age, the mere making of a work of art is itself a political act.”
Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity
“It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled.”
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”
Sam Shepard in Praise of Writing Letters as an Incomparable Art of Human Connection and a Creative Practice
An ode to the art of relationship sculpted in time.
Gauguin’s Stirring First-Hand Account of What Actually Happened the Night Van Gogh Cut off His Own Ear
“Between two such beings as he and I, the one a perfect volcano, the other boiling too, inwardly, a sort of struggle was preparing.”
Walking as Creative Fuel: A Splendid 1913 Celebration of How Solitary Walks Enliven “The Country of the Mind”
“Nature’s particular gift to the walker… is to set the mind jogging, to make it garrulous, exalted, a little mad maybe — certainly creative and suprasensitive.”
Poetry and the Revolution of Being: Jane Hirshfield on How Great Art Transforms Us
“Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means?… And by changing selves, one by one, art changes also the outer world that selves create and share.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the Dangerous Myth of the Suffering Artist and What Makes Life Worth Living
A beautiful clarion call for making creative work “the filling joy of your life” no matter how difficult the cards you’ve been dealt.
Rachel Carson on Writing and the Loneliness of Creative Work
“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in… you will interest other people.”
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