Category Archives: Quotes
Kandinsky quote on art
A great quote on art by Wassily Kandinsky. “…lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the … Continue reading
How to be creative talk by John Cleese.
Enjoy this witty and insightful video on how to be creative by John Cleese from Monty Python, Faulty Towers, A Fish Called Wanda, etc. In addition to being very creative and funny, creativity has been an area of study for … Continue reading
What prevents new ideas?
“The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to always be right by having no ideas … Continue reading
How to take great photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson talks about photography as a way of making an immediate sketch to capture the decisive moment in fluid time. Pay close attention to the last sentence for the secret!
Claude Monet on where to find new directions for expression
“When asked for advice on painting, Claude Monet told people not to fear mistakes. The discipline of art requires constant experimentation, wherein errors are harbingers of original ideas because they introduce new directions for expression. The mistake is outside the … Continue reading
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How to be creative
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Einstein on beauty
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Albert Einstein