Is your art really that bad?

Picture it, you’re in the ‘creative’ zone, pulling together your masterpiece; pouring out soul into your art… and then you take a step back, look/listen to it and think, ‘that’s rubbish.’

It is all to easy to throw away what you’ve done, becasue you don’t think it is good enough. Perhaps it isn’t the best that could be done, perhaps it does need some more work, perhaps it isn’t great. But it is something that you have created.

At these times, why not use the following quote from John Cage to question whether it really is rubbish.

‘The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.’

John Cage

Winnie the Pooh philosophises on user response to creativity

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish  inside of you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

Winnie the Pooh

The art of stress free writing – quote

“I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.”

Peter De Vries

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The power of creativity

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”

George Lois 

Inspirational quote for artists

‘There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.’

Pablo Picasso

Quote from Seth Godin

Here’s a great quote from web/ business guru (and all round cool dude) Seth Godin. It ties nicely into the ethos behind Imaginality so thought you may all like a nice link to it

Seth’s Blog: Creativity

Creative QotD

‘Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative’
Oscar Wilde