365 has been such a great creative tool for me, and there are so many wonderful creative people here - so I figured it would be a great place to ask...
What is your favorite quote about creativity/art/beauty/photography/design?
Mine is Helen Hayes of all people - "The expert at anything was once a beginner. "
It gives me the courage to try something new...
I also like “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” - Albert Einstein
Kind of corporate, but I find it applies to my personal life. It gets me to try to look at something differently - sometimes literally.
"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into." ~Ansel Adams
This quote inspires me to take photos that are more than just pretty to look at....to force the viewer to wonder, think, or imagine.
@sweetfire OOh Love that one! @sdpace Thanks! I am an Ansel fan and had never heard that one.
I went searching for these on the net, and found another two more: “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London
“So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.” — Brenda Ueland
I guess I am feeling creatively challenged today...
2 of my favourites that I have on my 365 blog header...
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place...I've found it has little to do with the the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
Elliott Erwitt
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."
Thanks Guys! @rossco088 Really like that. It didn't occur to me that fear is such an enemy of Creativity, until I got into this topic. (Clearly I only get to be creative in my spare time, not at work...)
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This quote inspires me to take photos that are more than just pretty to look at....to force the viewer to wonder, think, or imagine.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
I went searching for these on the net, and found another two more: “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London
“So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.” — Brenda Ueland
I guess I am feeling creatively challenged today...
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place...I've found it has little to do with the the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
Elliott Erwitt
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."
Aaron Siskin
Just found a great site with lots of nice photography quotes: http://www.photoquotes.com/
This is another that I take to heart.
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams
Reminds me that the risk is worth it, and fear of failure is fear of trying.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~Claude Monet
@capemayblackdog Good thread; thanks for starting it. I'm enjoying reading all the quotes!
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
Masaru Ibuka
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps have never been seen.
-Robert Bresson
another favorite:
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ” Michelangelo (1475-1564)