(felt like posting this again. cos it's awesome. and i love it - thanks to sarah murray, an inspiration to me cos she started her own label, Yorke Clothing. she e-mailed this extract to me a long time ago. i really should write this in my journal...)

inhibition is a nail in the head

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality - arthur koestler

some attributes of creativity:
Challenging assumptions
being receptive to new ideas
recognising similarities or differences
making unlikely connections
taking risks
building on ideas to make better ones
looking at things in new ways
taking advantage of the unexpected
taking chances....

every discovery by definition is unpredictable. if it were predictible it would not be a discovery. Creativity exposes unpredictable things to be discovered.

art is what you can get away with - marshall mcluhan

colour is a power which directly influences the soul. colour is the keyboard, the eyes, the hammer, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which places, touching one key or another to cause vibration in the soul. It is therefore evident that colour harmony must rest only on a corresponding vibration in the human soul. - W Kandinsky

it may be those who do most, dream most - stephen leacock

a truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream - Rene Magritte

unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate....

between the idea and the reality. between the motion and the act. falls the shadow. - T.S Eliot

is the mind more like a fancy system of domino chains or a bathtub full of spring-loaded mousetraps? i'm betting the latter. - douglas hofstadter

thinking is drawing in your head

if you don't know where you are going all roads lead to there - roman proverb

what is now proved was once only imagined - william blake

imagination is the active ingredient of thinking. imagination jumps from present facts to future possibilities. imagination forms mental pictures of things not present. imagination conjures up correspondences and analogies.

imaging is to visualising, as language is to thinking.

perceptual paradox -
it is theory which decides what we can observe - einstein
seeing is decieving. its eating thats believing - james thurber

the opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth may be another profound truth - niels bohr

empty and be full. bend and be straight. have much and be confused. have little and gain everything - chinese proverb

writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.


{saint}