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Tag Archives: Creativity
Daily Diversion #441: Devoted to Big Bands
Found this chilling in a puddle under our car:
Devoted to Big Bands
Man Ray on Works of Art
“Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.”–Man Ray
Camille Claudel Google Doodle
The French artist was born on 8 December 1864:
Camille Claudel Google Doodle
The doodle is by artist Ichinori.
Daily Diversion #437: Writing Space
I’m finally getting my new writing studio put together. As most of you know, our recent (okay, it was two+ months ago) move was ridiculous and awful. Unpacking things in my studio was pretty much at the bottom of the list. Better late than never, though. Here’s a partial view of the area above my desk.
Inspo
John Steinbeck on the Magic in Story Writing
“If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.”–John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck (November 1939)
Eleanor Roosevelt on Life
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can think bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”–Eleanor Roosevelt (The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt)
Shared for the last nine words of the quote.
Eleanor Roosevelt (20 July 1933).
Edgar Allan Poe on a Single Mood
“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”–Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Henri on Art
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”–Robert Henri
James Thurber on Art
Here’s what my hometown boy had to say about art:
“Art–the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.”–James Thurber
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