Conscious Creativity Quotes

“Seeing shapes and colours without the burden of thinking about what they are will liberate your creative mind, inform your visual resources and alleviate intellectual interference.”
― Philippa Stanton, Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create

“It is much more important to be able to work deeper rather than wider, and a passion is essential to any creative; it fuels curiosity, experimentation, input and output, and serves as a great anchor in the sea of constant ideas that can forever float around your head. Your passion or obsession won't necessarily be your best or most lucrative idea, but it will be a rock and it will be YOURS.”
― Philippa Stanton, Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create

“It's almost vital to a continuing creative practice to find, invent or identify a personal passion, project, obsession or collection, because not only can it motivate and challenge you, it also means that even when you're feeling uninspired you will always have a go-to subject to connect with.”
― Philippa Stanton, Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create

“Worrying that you’re going to get something wrong implies that there must be a correct way of doing something that you are unaware of: that somewhere someone knows what this right way is and they’re just waiting to see whether you do too, and will probably laugh at you if you don’t.”
― Philippa Stanton, Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create

“pulling the remaining plant apart and sitting proudly in the centre of their efforts. What has been ‘created’ might seem to be a complete mess, but it’s also an innocent and informative investigation. Artists and babies often both share that similar quality of freedom. They express themselves in ways relevant to who they are and how they feel.”
― Philippa Stanton, Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create