Came across this in my notes the other day, by David Edwards in his book, Artscience: Creativity in the post-Google generation. (By the way, I googled “aesthetic mind” and got 5,240 cites. Wow. I have a lot of reading to do….) When I speak of art, I will mostly refer to an aesthetic mind, by…
In No More Secondhand Art, Peter London wrote that artists were custodians of issues larger than themselves. This is also true for those of us working in diverse areas of social change: our tasks our larger than we are. Our work isn’t simply a matter of expressing ourselves properly, fixing what appears to be broken,…
When I teach writing classes, people often ask me for tips on how to be more disciplined and productive. My response to them is always the opposite. I don’t believe that creativity can be forced. Rather, it needs to be “fed.” When you take care of yourself, treating yourself to whatever makes you feel warm…
In a class I taught last fall, I posed the question, “What inspires you?” The following is what the students came up with. I’ve had it taped to my office wall ever since. In my opinion, inspiration is what life is all about. Lucky for us, it comes in many forms.
This is sand art by Peter Donnelly of Christchurch, New Zealand. When Donnelly creates, he’s at ground level, and he can’t “see” his work. He can only feel it. Reminds me of a quote by J. Ruth Gendler from her book Notes on the Need for Beauty: “Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave…
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