“I do want to be careful not to glamorise mental illness when it comes to creativity because more often than not it actually tends to inhibit creativity…”
On avoiding perpetuating stereotypes about mental illness in “Esmé Weijun Wang: ‘I don’t want to glamorise mental illness… it inhibits creativity’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/29/esme-weijun-wang-interview-the-collected-schizophrenias in The Guardian (2019 Jun29)
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Source: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 121
“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”
“To be creative you actually have to do something.”
Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
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Hideo Nakata interview: on directing Chatroom, the Internet, and making films in the UK https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/hideo-nakata-interview-on-directing-chatroom-the-internet-and-making-films-in-the-uk/ (June 8, 2011)
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
Source: How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“I am more creative when I don't have sex.”
Quoted in: People Magazine (2002), People: Almanac 2003, p. 377
“Actual creativeness is a matter of moments.”
Entry (1956)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Context: Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.