Tag: creativity
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‘I came to painting to hang my ideas on a nail’
“I came to painting to hang my ideas on a nail.” Georges Braque, “La musicienne, 1918”
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A guide to art
Art is the ability to get lost and navigate by the gut. Art is teachable but its answers require no education at all. Art is the act of perpetual innovation. Art is an expression on canvass, a business product, a speech, and countless other remarkable creations. Art is controlled randomness, a collection of disparate things.…
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Maria Popova talks about writing for herself, creativity, and more on the Tim Ferriss Podcast
Below are some of the highlights of Maria Popova from her interview on the Tim Ferriss podcast. Some of the topics discussed include how to be interesting, on doing the work, and what makes a person creative. On being interesting “The key to being interesting is being interested and enthusiastic about those interests.” When Kurt Vonnegut…
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‘Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent’
“Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent.” — Charles White
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Leonardo’s strange faces
There’s an excellent piece in the NY Times about Leonardo Da Vinci’s obsession with drawing weird faces: Leonardo was a true Renaissance man, fascinated with everything — the mechanics of flight, architecture, engineering, botany, artillery and human anatomy — but one of his favorite private pastimes was to draw faces, either as scribbles in the…
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Looking sideways
An inner radicalism tugs away at the illusion of coherence. What we strive for often makes zero sense to others, if at all to ourselves. But we feel it. The contrarian begs to differ if only to avoid the stuckness of traditional thought. In all likeliness, it’s the things misheard, misquoted, misunderstood — mere accidents…
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Paintings by Congolese artist Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga
“I’m inspired to see different worlds coming together; people living in chaos but partying. It’s like the beauty of a painting that at the same time represents such a harsh reality.” — Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, ‘Fragile Responsibility’
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Oblique Strategy: Turn it upside down
“Turn a seeming disadvantage to your advantage. The greater the seeming disadvantage, the greater the possible advantage.” Robert Fripp via Brian Eno
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Defining singularity in the mass
The plane I had made for Lufthansa already contained 2,000 small images of the same plane. But I wanted to get to a scale that would be comparable to what felt like the beginning of a whole different paradigm. It was the 1980s, when air transportation had truly become global: airports were becoming cities and,…
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‘Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time’
‘Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.’ — Margaret Atwood
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The bookstore that inspired JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series
Livaria Lello is the name of the notable bookstore in Porto, Portugal that inspired JK Rowling in writing the Harry Potter series. Known as a reader and writer hangout since its inception in 1906, the bookstore includes the fantastical twisting stairwell reminiscent of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. Find out more about the intricate staircase and beautiful…