"The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe."

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Source : John Daido Loori (2007). “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life”, p.1, Ballantine Books

John Daido Loori

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“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.”
“There are no small steps in great affairs.”

Source : Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz (1817). “Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz: containing, the particulars of his own life, with the most secret transactions of the French court and the civil wars”, p.394
“The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is, a result of a nature not to give the slightest inquietude to the most timid imagination; and which can cause no regrets but to the very person who, through a sentiment of shame and pity, has refused to prolong a life begun under the auspices of misery.”
“No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.”
“For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.”
“Youâ€™re going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, itâ€™s going to change how we think about work. Thereâ€™s no way around that. You canâ€™t wish it away.”
“The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.”
“I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.”

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