"Sometimes disengaging is the best way to engage."

"Failure is the information you need to get where you're  going."

"Art has the power to snap us out of our transfixion, open our minds to what's possible, and reconnect with the eternal energy that moves through all things.

"Self-awareness is a transcendence.  An abandonment of ego.  A letting go."

"Try  to experience everything as if for the first time."

"In Japanese pottery, there's an artful form of repair called kintsugi. When a piece of ceramic pottery breaks, rather than trying to restore it to its original condition, the artesian accentuates the fault by using gold to fill the crack. This beautifully draws the attention to where the work was broken, creating a golden vein. Instead of the flaw diminishing the work, it becomes the focal point, an area of both physical and aesthetic strength. The scar also tells the story of the piece, chronicling its past experience."

"Listening without prejudice is how we grow and learn as people."

The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity. To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible.

We make it trickier than need be. The mere fact that you pick out what you're going to wear is an act of being creative. 
Creativity means using your imagination, originality, and resourcefulness to generate new ideas. It involves thinking beyond conventional boundaries, exploring possibilities, and expressing yourself in unique ways. 
Creativity is often associated with seeing the world from different perspectives and finding connections between seemingly unrelated things. It's about bringing something new or valuable into existence.

The act of creating

Meet Mr. Rick Rubin, record exec extraordinaire.  Co-founder of Def Jam Recordings and author of the book The Creative Act: A Way of Being.  As a creative, I always seek inspiration and like minds that will spur me on to further growth.  

The #1 New York Times bestseller. From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment.” —Anne Lamott “I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be.” —Rick Rubin Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn’t, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone’s life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities. The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments—and lifetimes—of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.

RICK RUBEN

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