Wendy Bevan


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us." 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Wolfgang Tillmans

fall in love with Love again,
a breath at a time,
yes

feel that,
as you let your shoulders sink,
allowing you
to sink deep into the core of you,
the belly of you,
the home of you
where soul is just "hanging out"
waiting to play with you

receive,
are you willing to breathe deeply,
allow, so gently,

a breath at a time,
to fall in love with Love again,

yes

– Kuan Yin

Stefan Otto

Chadwick Tyler

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Video on TED.com

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Video on TED.com

 

Ekaterina Bazhenova

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. -Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (1800-1859) 

 Jamie Bochert by Tom Munro

So we wait

We wait in line at the grocery store, in traffic, to find true love, for health.

We wait for more money, freedom, time, for someone to come home.

We wait for inspiration, for a response, to hold someone we care for.

We wait to finally understand, to get it, to be seen, to live free and we wait to die.

We wait for the small things in Life, and we wait for the big things in Life.

Is it possible to not wait – to not want to be somewhere else than here – now?

We sure have a natural habit of moving mentally out of this moment, into that place that is there

outside of us – always in the so called future (or past).

But hey, is this not also called positive focus, constructive visualization,

Law of Attraction, conscious creation, progress and development?

There is a fine balance between acceptance of what is, non-resistance, gratitude

and having a clear intention for what you want to manifest.

You will probably be waiting for something later today, so have awareness of the fact that

you are given a pause – a time out – a moment to use as you please.

Make something out of this precious little moment – create something good.

There is no point waiting for Life – Life is waiting for you.

By Viktor Egelund

Sally Mann

Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. -Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (1881-1973)

For a few years now, people have commented that there is an overall decline in creativity in fashion and there’s a lot of anxiety around whether young generations are capable of producing surprises. Is the idea that fashion can no longer produce anything original, or any ‘shocks of the new’, justified?

It’s just whining. What’s stopping them from creating something exciting? Work, don’t cry. I am optimistic, and I don’t subscribe to this idea of cultural or creative decline. Our generation has so many opportunities, so many possibilities for creation and communication, and yet seems to be intimidated by these new developments at the same time. The internet has accelerated everything; it has disrupted every industry. I would prefer to see this as an exciting and productive challenge and not the harbinger of the end of everything. This is history in the making: it is the start of something new.

 Ryan McGinley

Do you think it’s possible to be avant-garde and commercial? Or are art and commerce mutually exclusive?

 

Today, anyone who is making work and considers themselves to be ‘avant-garde’ is most likely funded by a liquor company, no? What I mean is that this is notion of artist’s disregarding the commercial is simply rhetorical. For me the most avant-garde, or simply the most creative act these days is to develop business models that sustain intelligent and original content, specifically in a digitised world. The question is, how is ‘creative freedom’ possible when everything is monetised? Rather than resisting that question under the premise that art and money are somehow at odds, what is more interesting is to attempt to answer it.

From an interview in Industrie magazine with creative director, editor-in-chief and co-founder of 032c magazine, Joerg Koch.

embrace failure

Milton Glaser - on the fear of failure
from the Berghs' Exhibition 11
on vimeo 

 via we<3it

Willy Ronis

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. -Leo Rosten, author (1908-1997)

Paolo Roversi

Creativity

Creativity is the basis of self-expression. Why are some people supposedly more creative than others, and why can't others open themselves up enough to be able to express who they are?

Creation is the birth of something, and something cannot come from nothing. When someone creates something: a painting, a poem, a photograph, the creativity comes from an idea, from a feeling, from emotion, or from a combination of ideas, feelings and emotions that are somehow 'reborn' from all our experiences and perspectives.

Creativity is the desire to express ourselves. To formulate these expressions, we have to draw from our reservoir of experience, dreams, desires and experimentation and mix together what was, what is, and what could be... I don't think you can learn it, it is rather something that evolves. Your perception of everything in your life fills up this reservoir.

Some people are drawn to create and express themselves, others are drawn to reflect, to analyze. But in the end, they all could be creative if they had the desire to explore the way in which they are integrated in the world of their experiences. Because creativity is really a rebirth, a true tone we feel for ourselves and for our world. Then our work becomes a real part of who we are. Maybe all this is a question of how deep we are willing to go...

by Peter Lindbergh

with Lily, New York, June 1996

Lehnert & Landrock

“The great Western disease is, ‘I’ll be happy when… When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job.’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It’s in here. And happiness is not next week. It’s now.”

- Marshall Goldsmith

Ryan McGinley

  

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”  Lao Tzu

Man Ray

"To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing"  Shunryu Suzuki