Category: Creativity

All artists long for more of it – the sometimes illusive creative mode. How does it manifest? 1. Time stands […]

Describing the upcoming art class “Toward Abstract”, I was carefully explaining that in this class, people do not have to […]

I’d like to introduce you to Dan Goodwin. Dan has a blog called “A Big Creative Yes – to the […]

Ceramic artist Eva Zeisel whose work has been recognised by the Museum of Modern Art as masterpieces of contemporary design says this about ‘being different’. “This idea to be different is not my aim, and shouldn’t be anybodies aim. … and you can’t always try to be different. I mean different from different from different. …and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means not like this and not like that.” (From “Creativity – Flow & the Psychology of Discovery & Invention”, author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) 

“You are the only one with a front seat in your life. You are the only one with a 360 […]

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” […]

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I will […]

There’s no denying that historically, some artists have been crazy. Poor tormented Vincent van Gogh is the most famous case. […]

There are 2 terrible words that strike me through in a way that no others can. They are: “too late”. […]