Quotes (Tag: creativity) (random order)https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/order/random/output/atom/2019-09-29T18:47:59+02:00#4599?https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/4599/2019-07-17T00:09:21+02:00<blockquote>Suffering is not the source of creativity. The desire to escape suffering is.<div class=source><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/makinghiphop/comments/cdw6jh/raw_and_dark_fear_passion_hatred_and_aggression/etx8cm6/">https://www.reddit.com/r/ ... d_and_aggression/etx8cm6/</a></div></div></blockquote>#3065Noam Chomskyhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3065/2015-10-11T21:49:03+02:00<blockquote>If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience. You study for a test and pass it and you forget what the topic was, you know. And I presume that this is all pretty conscious. How conscious are they? I don't know, but they're reflections of the attitude that you have to have discipline, passivity, obedience, the kind of independence and creativity that we were shown in the '60s and since then - it's just dangerous.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/author/Noam Chomsky/">Noam Chomsky</a></div><div title=Source><a class="wrap" href="http://www.alternet.org/chomsky-theres-overt-corporate-effort-indoctrinate-american-children">http://www.alternet.org/c ... trinate-american-children</a></div></div></blockquote>#3682Alexandre Grothendieckhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3682/2017-07-20T01:24:04+02:00<blockquote>To state it in slightly different terms: in those critical years [roughly from age 17 to 20] I learned how to be alone.
This formulation doesn't really capture my meaning. I didn't, in any literal sense <i>learn</i> to be alone, for the simple reason that this knowledge had never been <i>unlearned</i> during my childhood. It is a basic capacity in all of us from the day of our birth. However these 3 years of work in isolation, when I was thrown onto my own resources, following guidelines which I myself had spontaneously invented, instilled in me a strong degree of confidence, unassuming yet enduring, in my ability to do mathematics, which owes nothing to any consensus or to the fashions which pass as law.
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By this I mean to say: to reach out in my own way to the things I wished to learn, rather than relying on the notions of the consensus, overt or tacit, coming from a more or less extended clan of which I found myself a member, or which for any other reason laid claim to be taken as an authority. This silent consensus had informed me, both at the lyé and at the university, that one shouldn't bother worrying about what was really meant when using a term like "volume", which was "obviously self-evident", "generally known", "unproblematic", etc. I'd gone over their heads, almost as a matter of course, even as Lesbesgue himself had, several decades before, gone over their heads. It is in this gesture of "going beyond", to be something in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, the refusal to stay within a rigid circle that others have drawn around one - it is in this <i>solitary</i> act that one finds <i>true creativity</i>. All other things follow as a matter of course.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/author/Alexandre Grothendieck/">Alexandre Grothendieck</a></div><div title=Source>"The Life of a Mathematician - Reflections and Bearing Witness" (1986)</div></div></blockquote>#626Albert Einsteinhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/626/2012-07-26T14:42:42+02:00<blockquote>Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/author/Albert Einstein/">Albert Einstein</a></div></div></blockquote>#1041Hugh Macleodhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1041/2013-02-10T21:31:40+01:00<blockquote>Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/author/Hugh Macleod/">Hugh Macleod</a></div></div></blockquote>#3138George Orwellhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3138/2015-11-27T17:15:33+01:00<blockquote>Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/author/George Orwell/">George Orwell</a></div></div></blockquote>#3675Clair C. Pattersonhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3675/2017-07-12T02:45:51+02:00<blockquote>Look, I’m stupid, all right? I’m not some brilliant person. I’m a little child. You know the emperor’s new clothes? I can see the naked emperor, just because I’m a little child-minded person. I’m not smart. I mean, good scientists are like that. They have the minds of children, to see through all this façade of all this other stuff that they know is stupid nonsense. They just don’t see it the way other people see it.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/author/Clair C. Patterson/">Clair C. Patterson</a></div><div title=Source>interview by Shirley K. Cohen (1995)</div></div></blockquote>#629Friedensreich Hundertwasserhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/629/2012-07-26T14:57:29+02:00<blockquote>A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/author/Friedensreich Hundertwasser/">Friedensreich Hundertwasser</a></div></div></blockquote>#1230Maxwell Maltzhttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/1230/2013-02-20T12:38:18+01:00<blockquote>Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/author/Maxwell Maltz/">Maxwell Maltz</a></div></div></blockquote>#3445Ira Glasshttps://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/3445/2017-01-24T06:23:45+01:00<blockquote>Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.<div class=source><div class=author title=Author><a href="https://littleliberry.org/autonomy/a/extra/quotes/tag/creativity/author/Ira Glass/">Ira Glass</a></div></div></blockquote>