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What's Changing? - Creativity

Creativity

 

Please see below selected recent creativity-related change.

 

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April 2023

 

February 2023

  • Maria Popova noted that recognition that art works with the raw materials of life undermines the cult of originality, which is itself the great hubris of the creative spirit. As Mark Twain wrote to Helen Keller, “all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources”. Stripping true creativity of this fetish for originality, Emerson anticipatesd Oscar Wilde’s insistence that creativity is the product of “the temperament of receptivity”

 

December 2022

 

June 2022

 

July 2021

 

June 2019

 

February 2019

 

August 2018

  • I have no reader in mind - the reader is me as I re-read - Philip Roth. Roth's words resonate, and feel comfortable, to those of us who are still, slowly working ourselves out on the page.  We don't necessarily need comments, feedback...not yet, anyway.
  • However, as Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "many people die with their music still in them", so to avoid that sense of feeling, ultimately, unfulfilled, perhaps we should urgently try and find ways to create an authentic outward expression of the inner one, even whenthat vision is problematic, or even nightmarish, as in Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights in the Prado in Madrid.
  • Philosophers, artists and writers tell of places that quicken their creative pulse.
  • David Shields argued for a blurring of the lines between creativity and plagiarism on Start the Week, arguing that novels are irrelevant and that non-fiction has taken over. 

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