Posts tagged ‘Creativity’

Aug 17

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“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” — Luigi Pirandello

Created in the gaze of a starry lion in the August sky, this series explores how imagination is to nature as words and images are to the work of creation.

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

― J.G. Ballard

Sep 23

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“My favorite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.” ―Groucho Marx

Libra’s gift
Balancing star charms
Akimbo

I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I’m a Libra! —Laura Regan

Sep 14

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“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” ―Khalil Gibran

Fierce beauty
Excites sights we greet
In great dreams

To love beauty is to see light. —Victor Hugo

Aug 13

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“Our world isn’t made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.” ―Tom Robbins

Wordsmithing
My labor of love
Forging verbs

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. —Arnold H. Glasow

Nov 27

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“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos” —Stephen Sondheim

Oct 29

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“There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write”—Terry Pratchett

I write like I talk and I don’t get talker’s block—Seth Godin

Idle pen
Or empty ink well
Which came first

Oct 21

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“Camp is extravagant play for serious ends” —Karl Keller / “Camp is a great jewel, 22 carats”—Kenneth Williams / “Camp is pink flamingos”—Philip Core

ART CAMP sans

“Camp is a mode of perception”—Fabio Cleto / “Camp can be taken on two completely separate levels, and make perfect sense on each”—Evelyn Satz / “Camp’s favourite colour is pink”—Mark Booth

Sep 27

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“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.” —Lionel Trilling

Artists are low key astronauts. Instead of going to the moon, they sit back in their studio and make the moon

—Michael Bassey Johnson

Aug 9

“If you want to hear the distant voice of the ocean put your ear to the distant lips of a seashell.” —Curtis Tyrone Jones

sand pirates with shovels and pails
excavate tidal pools
capturing waves of wayward whales
soft hermit crabs in shells of snails
urchins on break from schools

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Aug 1

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“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” —Tom Robbins

So I ask this geezer, rocking beside me on the porch, “Hey Gramps, how do you want to feel when you grow up?” The geezer laughs so hard he rolls off his rocker.

Posts tagged ‘Creativity’

Created in the gaze of a starry lion in the August sky, this series explores how imagination is to nature as words and images are to the work of creation.

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

― J.G. Ballard

Libra’s giftBalancing star charmsAkimbo

I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I’m a Libra! —Laura Regan

Fierce beautyExcites sights we greetIn great dreams

To love beauty is to see light. —Victor Hugo

WordsmithingMy labor of loveForging verbs

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. —Arnold H. Glasow

Heaving to Order in chaosCharts of art

Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system —Andrew Stanton

I write like I talk and I don’t get talker’s block—Seth Godin

Idle penOr empty ink wellWhich came first

Adapt with Panache

Advancing the evolution of the planet that gave us the dodo, we see technology and biology merge. As producers of carbon emissions wait for their chips to come in, fjord tundra birds adapt to thin ice.

“Camp is a mode of perception”—Fabio Cleto / “Camp can be taken on two completely separate levels, and make perfect sense on each”—Evelyn Satz / “Camp’s favourite colour is pink”—Mark Booth

Now showingartwork on our worldfrom the stars

Artists are low key astronauts. Instead of going to the moon, they sit back in their studio and make the moon

—Michael Bassey Johnson

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

So I ask this geezer, rocking beside me on the porch, “Hey Gramps, how do you want to feel when you grow up?” The geezer laughs so hard he rolls off his rocker.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm

—Aldous Huxley

Libra’s gift
Balancing star charms
Akimbo

Fierce beauty
Excites sights we greet
In great dreams

Wordsmithing
My labor of love
Forging verbs

Heaving to
Order in chaos
Charts of art

Idle pen
Or empty ink well
Which came first

Now showing
artwork on our world
from the stars