Posts filed under ‘creative • quotes’
A Variety of Hope
“Creativity is a variety of hope. It is too busy discovering to worry about whether or not it is important. Creativity is more important than a work of art. It is art. Creativity is an absence of fear. It is therefore a sign of love – at least it ought to be.”
- Richard R. Caemmerer Jr.
Sir Ken Robinson
“If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.”
—Sir Ken Robinson
Radiant Magazine Article
Join me over at Radiant where I discuss “Spiritual Disciplines” and manage somehow to work in gelato and one of my favorite quotes from Evelyn Underhill who says in her book The Spiritual Life,
“We mostly spend our lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have and
to Do. We are kept in perpetual unrest: forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in the fundamental verb, to Be: and that Being, not wanting, having and doing, is the essence of a spiritual life.”
Between Sight and Possibility
“Horizon is the seam
between sight
and possibility
May believing seed
your dreams
in the New Year”
—Sage Cohen, poet
New Year’s greeting
There are few better ways to greet the new year than with an open hand, and heart and mind. Sage (see Poetry for the People post below) reintroduced me to poetry and introduced me to a new favorite illustrator and graphic designer –
Edwin Land
“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”
—Edwin Land
inventor of instant photography
When I look at Trees
“When I look at trees, I see the leaves go a certain direction. Before, it didn’t matter. If I look at a tree long enough, I see birds.”
—Elaine, outsider artist
Paul Klee
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
—Paul Klee, artist
Creative Credo
Lois Ehlert
“When kids want to know how they can be an artist or a writer, I say start by having your own spot. It doesn’t have to be large or complex, just a place that is quiet and conducive to thinking. If they have their place and supplies all ready, ideas will come out when they’re ready. Just making materials available is enough. Wrapping paper, sticks, leaves, seeds: Art supplies are really all around us.”
—Lois Ehlert
author-illustrator
in Wondertime
