quotes on creativity

today was a good day.. or well, a fine day.. and then a sad day.  i wish the moods didnt shift so much, but oh well.
i opened up a dye experiment that turned out lovely..  it looks like this..
 it was already almost 9, so it was kinda darkish..  i can probably get a better picture in the light, but whatever.  it was creeping bell flowers and some chamomile leaves and my rusty stars, frozen then left to sit on the deck for a few days.  i'm really pleased with it. 
but then i got in a spiral of sad thinking and that sucks. 
but i've been looking up quotes on creativity for a project..  and i found a bunch of neat ones, not for the project, but that i like myself..  i thought i'd put them here.. 


It's not too late at all. 
You just don't yet know what you are capable of.
-Mahatma Gandhi

People say you can't live without love...
I think oxygen is more important

When it comes to art, it's important not to hide the madness.
-atticus

There is nothing in nature that blooms all year long. 
So don't expect yourself to do so either.

meraki - to do something with soul, creativity, or love; to put something of yourself into your work

the world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before

why did she make things?
well, she enjoyed it of course;
but it also somehow helped her remember
who she was and where she came from.

art is a way of reorganizing reality
-gustavo santaolalla

I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it.
vincent van gogh

art does not reproduce what we see.  it makes us see
-paul klee

what you create doesn't have to be perfect.
-dieter f. uchitdorf

He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
-St. Francis of Assisi

When I haven't any blue
I use red.
-Pablo Picasso

and then this..





which is pretty fantastic.

i havent read a whole lot of his writings, i have read a bit, but not a whole lot... vincent van gogh is who i'm talking about..  mostly i just come across quotes from him from time to time..  but of all the people in this world who's words i've heard.. well..  it resonates i suppose.  what i know of his thoughts on god and life and art and loneliness and everything are just so in tune with mine, it's weird.  it's so weird..  cause usually i feel such a disconnect with the world and people and sure there are people who have had thoughts and ideas that mesh with mine, but just in a way that i can see a parallel.
who knows.
anyway..   a common theme in all these quotes out there was that creativity takes courage..  and maybe so..  but i think for me the courage is needed for loving people..  that's much harder and requires a greater creativity than any art.

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