“A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.” Heather Demetrios
Tag: Creativity
Face the Wall
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” Banksy
Mural of Rockwell Painting in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Stool Sample
“So I went to the doctor, see what he could give me. He said, son, son you’ve gone too far. ‘Cause smokin’ an trippin’ is all that you do, yeah.” Ozzy
A Systemic Perspective
“Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.” Alain de Botton
System of a Down
“Everything is magical when you see it with your heart.” Mooji
The Sublime and the Ridiculous
“Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.” Jay DeFeo
Shoot the Moon
“That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again” Rumi
Headshots
“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.” Paul Caponigro
Gray Areas
“Black and white images take you beyond what most people photograph.” Rob Sheppard
The Art of Grilling
“Grilling, broiling, barbecuing-whatever you want to call it-is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.” James Beard
Creativity
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams
The Seat of Obsession
“There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession. In this sense, what we call a creative gift is merely the social license to be obsessed.” Otto Rank
Note to self: check the date on my social license to be obsessed, I don’t want it to expire anytime soon.
