Reads tagged with “creativity”
Mozart on Creativity and the Ideation Process
“It is quite natural that people who really have something particular about them should be different from each other on the outside as well as on the inside.”
A Decadent Decade of Design Matters: 10 Years of Intelligent and Inspiring Interviews with Creative Icons
Stimulating, ennobling, deeply human conversations with Maira Kalman, Seth Godin, Dani Shapiro, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Ware, Shepard Fairey, and more.
How Ursula Nordstrom, the Greatest Patron Saint of Modern Childhood Stood, Up for Creativity Against Commercial Cowardice
“Oh hell, it just boils down to: you just can’t explain this sort of basic wonderful stuff to some adults.”
Some of Today’s Most Prominent Artists on Courage, Creativity, Criticism, Success, and What It Means to Be a Great Artist
Wisdom from Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramović, Damien Hirst, Laurie Simmons, Carroll Dunham, and more.
John Maeda on Creative Leadership, Talking vs. Making, and Why Human Relationships Are a Work of Craftsmanship
“You make relationships. One at a time. With the same painstaking attention to craft that you knew as a maker.”
The People’s Platform: An Essential Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Cultural Commons in the Age of Commerce
“We are embedded beings who create work in a social context, toiling shared soil in the hopes that our labor bears fruit. It is up to all of us whether this soil is enriched or depleted, whether it nurtures diverse and vital produce or allows predictable crops to take root and run rampant.”
How to Work Through Difficulty: Lewis Carroll’s Three Tips for Overcoming Creative Block
“When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.”
Pulitzer-Winning Poet Mark Strand on the Heartbeat of Creative Work and the Artist’s Task to Bear Witness to the Universe
“It’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.”
A Classical Guitarist’s Assuring Account of Creative Homecoming and Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
“When you sit down to practice, however casually, you cast yourself as the hero and victim of your own myth.”
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