creative-thinking

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Making art requires a degree of intentionality. All works of art require a contemplative individual drawing from their bank of knowledge and immersion into the realms of memory and imagination in order to make an outward, communicative expression. Only human beings can draw upon the dialectical tension between memory and imagination to create artistic renderings.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

I only know that I know nothing

Everyone lives in two worlds,_ Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. __here__ the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren__. Mostly the real world s-s-s-suh-sucks. But everyone also lives in the world inside their own head. An inscape, a world of thought. In a world made of thought__n an inscape__very idea is a fact. Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history. Creative people, like writers, and Henry Rollins, spend a lot of their time hanging out in their thoughtworld. S-s-strong creatives, though, can use a knife to cut the stitches between the two worlds, can bring them together. Your bike. My tiles. Those are our knives.

Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author__ intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don__ make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author__ mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, __hoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?_. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it.

I__ an observer. I am fascinated by people and how their minds work (and, of course, my own). Why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do _ and that interest drives my writing. I was a physicist before fiction claimed my soul, so I__ an experimenter. I__ open to different ways of thinking. I like exaggerating, making things up. I__ a very open, honest person in life and that__ the way it should be, but when it comes to fiction, I want to pour a few sharp objects into the comfort zone. Our fears are powerful, yet we__e all got a desire to laugh and be entertained. I could have followed the same path I do now as a scientist, examining how the brain works. Ironically I get much more freedom to experiment as a writer. That__ why I love it.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid of anything that is too new. The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by marrying new and old, anxiety and understanding. They are architects of familiar surprises.

Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open to giving their buy-ins to participate.

Embrace curiosity, be open, playful, and persistent.

Innovation takes practice more than talent.

Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative.

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.