"QUOTES" on Creativity, Learning, Teaching

More curated quotes from my daily meandering readings:


"We see with memory. My memory is different from yours, so if we are both standing in the same place we?re not quite seeing the same thing. Different individuals have different memories, therefore other elements are playing a part. Whether you have been in a place before will affect you, and how well you know it. There?s no objective vision ever ??ever." -- David Hockney The world can be a horrible place at times, but we don?t have to participate in this, we don?t have to harden our hearts as we?re taught and told to do, in order to survive or be sexy or attractive lovers or perfect parents or interesting people. We do not have to make ourselves into mysterious gifts, waiting to be chosen or read or understood by those who will earn us, unwrap our secrets, and then what? We can be something more authentic, and speak from a different place, a different planet.? ?I don?t think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.? ?Attention to detail makes the difference between a good song and a great song. And I meticulously try to put the right sound in the right place, even sounds that you would only notice if I left them out. Sometimes I hear a melody in my head, and it seems like the first color in a painting. And then you can build the rest of the song with other added sounds. You just have to try to be with that first color, like a baby yearns to come to its parents. That?s why creating music is really like giving birth. Music is like the universe: The sounds are like the planets, the air and the light fitting together. ?When I write an arrangement, I always picture a blind person listening to the song. And I choose chords and sounds and percussion instruments which would help clarify the feel of the song to a blind person. For instance, a fat chord can conjure up a fat person, or a particular kind of color, or a particular kind of fabric or setting that I?m singing about. Also, some chords suggest a male, others a female, and some ambient sounds suggest togetherness while others suggest loneliness. But with everything I do, I try to keep that blind person in mind. And I make my musicians pay attention to that, too. Like my bassist, Sonny T., can really play a girl?s measurements on his instrument and make you see them. I love the idea of visual sounds.? ---Prince As legendary science fiction author and Flavorpill favorite?Ray Bradburyonce said, "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."? The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.--?Banksy. ?The only place you will find success coming before work is in a dictionary.? Vidal Sassoon ??Teaching Notes? closed with this statement, which professors (and critics) everywhere should etch onto the bottom rims of their reading glasses, facing outward: ?Remember, I?m going to mark you, it?s my great pleasure to reward real effort, it?s my great pleasure to punish stupidity, laziness and insincerity.? --Paul Thek Erin Jourdan is a writer and teacher living in Los Angeles. She helps people learn more about themselves using writing.?

Source: http://semioticiantothestars.blogspot.com/2012/07/quotes-on-creativity-learning-teaching.html

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