Thoughts on

Creativity

Beauty | Art | Communication | Awe | Wonder | Delight | Tomato Gardener

 
 

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Turn the telescope around; let’s fix our gaze on the space deep within, the place where our own deepest attitudes are formed. This is where authentic and lasting change will take root — and bear an abundant harvest.

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The artist within each of us has an urgent challenge — to bind the wounds of suspicion and heal the torn fabric of our society.

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Painting restores the spaciousness of childhood and reminds us of things we knew but forgot, because art is carefully orchestrated wandering. If you’re in a hurry, you will miss everything.
— Brian Rutenberg
 
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
— Ray Bradbury
 
 

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How often we, too, must embrace this gift of pondering, of taking into ourselves mysteries far greater than ourselves, of accepting our own inadequacy to understand God’s purposes.

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