Quote for Today: Maurice Chevalier
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, …
Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who …
Quote for Today: Leonard Bernstein
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that …
Quote for Today: Ansel Adams
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you …
Quote for Today: Frank O’Hara
I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute …
Finding Creativity in the Community
Sometimes we sit alone and wait for inspiration, never realizing that it is bubbling up all around and within us. A long time ago, there was a land called “Wells,” …
Innovation through our Limitations: The Creativity of Bob Fosse
We often view our limitations as stumbling blocks. What might happen if we embraced them and created through them instead? Bob looked different than the other dancers. He was small. …
Quote for Today: Madeleine L’Engle
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, “Here I am. Enflesh me. …
Making Beginnings out of Endings, Part One
Life experiences can make us feel alone and helpless. The best medicine may be to embrace creativity and get moving. In a scene from the 1988 Belgian-French film The Music Teacher, …
Inspiration and the Perfect Breath
Would you like to be more creative? How do we access the kind of inspiration that enhances and unlocks imagination? As I begin to write this first blog post, I …