Creativity

The Creativity buzz has been running rampant up and down the halls of my house of late. One cool idea begets yet another. A seventh blog has been created as a place to house all those wonderful quotations we writers adore. (Beautiful Illustrated Quotations)

Quotations

As I scoured the web for yet more quotes like any good quotation junkie I was struck with how the sites displayed as visually dull and uninspiring. Quotations excite the mind and inspire the heart! “Where are those images to enhance their meaning?” I asked inside my own mind.

So, “Hold onto your hat!” as the saying goes to explain a whirlwind on the way, whether figuratively or real weather, this visual quotation hub looks like it will turn into a series!

Painting and Poetry

I’m rather partial to painting and poetry. There are not as many of this type of quote floating around in cyberspace. This is the now decided beginning point for a different style of presenting awesome quotations.

Now that I’ve built you up let’s hope you are not disappointed…

Featured persons are: Leonardo Da Vinci, Henry Ward Beecher, Marcel Proust, Dorothea Lange, Louis Nizer, David Deida and Dame Edna Everage.

Artist vs. Technician

What they all discuss deeply is the artist vs. a technician. Many people can master a technique yet lack originality. Why not? Because they have not dug down deeply enough inside themselves to the heart level. Too many people are afraid of what they will find.

Writing Poetry

Some writers think it’s wrong to journal sad poetry. My attitude? Live out loud, people! Human beings experience a full range of emotions; express them all. Just try not to get stuck in one emotion for too long a period as it can stifle your creativity.

All of these quoted talk about how to see the world and the self with new eyes. Those new eyes become engaged to the Creativity Muse. Art is born!

My Muse Guy

Before I leave you for the visual treat below, here is one of my recently posted poems to consider in harmony with this piece. For the jaded writers out there just think of this as filler so HubPages will be satisfied this hub contains enough words!

For those who normally would not go to read a poem perhaps it will be more simpatico paired with these quotes about art and writing. Hopefully, everything here will help jumpstart your creativity or gently nudge you past some writer’s block.

This little poem has a touch of humor in keeping with the other voices quoted. My muse guy is quite noisy and insistent, a real slave driver at times. Some of you can identify for sure!

Warm comfortable drifting

Toggling between this waking world

And the world of dreams symbolic

 

Sheets, those delicious summer skimmers

Glide as bodies turn side to side in repose

 

Gently

 

Quietly

 

Softly the growing silence

Easily falling down to fade

 

*Wake up!*

Comes an unwelcome startling voice

Eyes closed

Face grimaces a frown

*Wake up!* voice insistent, repeats

 

Ascending the dark stairway of knowledge

Rubbing my inner mind's eye

Flinging open the huge door to light

Asking *What?!*

 

About to fall teetering backward

Into the comforting quiet dark

*What?!*

*Write it down*

*Now? It's the middle of the night!*

 

Aware it's a losing battle

Dutifully returning to the waking world of dark

Reaching out, fingers fumbling for bedside notebook and pen

Scribbling on lines overrun from hands half asleep

Too large is the messy handwriting

Next morning tough to decipher

 

Words tumble down onto paper out of the inner dark

That vast library of knowledge, universal to all

Opening the heavy tall thick door

Written words enter, marching out onto now

The waking world bathed still in eerie moonlight

 

Fulfilled the bleary-eyed scribe's task

Tumble backward to welcoming sleep

Covers pulled high over weary, oh, so tired, body

 

Descending the long narrow stairway

 

Down

 

 

Deeper

 

 

Arrived

 

 

The loving library of inner knowledge

Infinity to yet explore

Artifacts of knowing to drag home

And leave quietly on some welcoming doorstep

 

Every artist dips his brush

in his own soul,

and paints his own nature

into his pictures.

Painting is poetry

that is seen

rather than felt,

and poetry

is painting

that is felt

rather than seen.

The real voyage of discovery consists

not in seeking new lands

but seeing with new eyes.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself,

after all,

you could be missing out on

the joke of the century.

The camera is an instrument

that teaches people

how to see

without

a

camera.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer;

a man who works with his hands

and his mind

is a craftsman;

and,

a man who works with his hands,

his mind

and his heart

is an artist.

Everything you experience

and do in your life

is like a ripple

on the surface

of a boundless openness

of who you are.

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Join me over at my general musings, humor and poetry blog:  The Social Poets

Beautiful Illustrated Quotations - art photos paired with quotations to enhance meaning and give mind refreshment at the end of a long day!

Visual Insights - photography, mine and other flickr friends, abstract art from flickr friends and some of mine too!

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Other hubs about Quotations:

Ten Illustrated Quotes: Humor

hub #28 

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Purple lawn chairs by Terence J Sullivan @ flickr

Paintbrush by merlinprincesse @ flickr

40’s woman in front of mirror by Terence J Sullivan @ flickr

Chinese man on boat with moon by johey24 @ flickr

Egret ascension by alicepopkorn @ flickr

Sleepy little owl by left-hand @ flickr

Hold all my calls by furryscaly @ flickr

Big laugh by marfis 75 @ flickr

Fire in the sky by Steve Kelley mudpig @ flickr

NASA solar winds modified by Image Editor @ flickr 

Pantheon by wili_hybrid @ flickr

Port and boats by Tambako the Jaguar @ flickr

Man with umbrella by alicepopkorn @ flickr

Bride and groom in ocean by millzero.com @ flickr