If people ignore what you’ve created, too bad. If people enjoy what you’ve created, terrific. “Recognizing that people’s reactions don’t belong to you is the only sane way to create. It’s an invitation to get your hands messy-to laugh at the notion that there’s even such a label as a “creative person.” People are inherently creative, even if they don’t realize it, and Elizabeth Gilbert proves this point again and again.īuy BIG Magic on AMazon Favorite Quotes from Big Magic It’s a kind, generous whisper to nourish what’s already inside of you. It’s so intimate and personal yet deeply practical. Creativity is already waiting for you.īig Magic is a rambling of musings from a lifelong artist. This is where we find satisfaction in our lives. This is where we find satisfaction in our creativity. Regardless of whether you want to make a living off your art or simply enjoy creativity outside of your job, you must let curiosity-instead of fear-take the wheel. If you want to make a living off your art, embracing creativity and the simple, pure act of enjoying your art is going to be ten times harder. This book will help you with these goals, but Elizabeth Gilbert is clear about the challenges of creativity by trade. If you want to write, or act, or paint for a living, there’s a great deal of discipline and self-editing and practice required to reach your goals. RELATED: Refilling Your Well of Creativity | NaNoWriMo Curiosity is the antidote to fear. Suffering for your art, in any capacity, is just plain silly. In fact, we were created to create, so stopping the flow of creativity is actually quite damaging. To be fragile or precious with your creativity. The worst thing for your creativity is being afraid to be creative. I can fall under some kind of paralysis because it all feels too hard, but Elizabeth is quick to encourage her readers to take heart. I can let perfectionism and waiting for “inspiration to strike” get in the way of filling my creative well. Fear of creating will squash your creativity. I needed to hear Elizabeth’s words that indicate how creativity is easier to tap into than we might realize. It’s this season of motherhood that makes creativity feel out of reach sometimes. Here’s what I learned from Big Magic: Creativity waits in ordinary moments.Įven though I waited, I’m glad I waited to read it until I’m in this season of life, where the ordinary and mundane moments and tasks seem to pile up and slow down and time becomes more precious than ever.
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Big Magic has completely transformed the way I think about creativity, art, and how to live a life with meaning and purpose. Whatever the reason, I put off reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, even though I knew it had the potential to rock. Maybe it’s because of the hype-that it won’t live up to our expectations. Maybe it’s because we’re afraid of how much a book will change us or how much it will mean to us. I know I’m not alone in this odd habit I’ve talked to many other readers who do the same.
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Losing all sense of my professional logic at these times, I am sometimes scared, but over time I realise that I have found in this new configuration an unexpected world, full of diverse experiences often logically impractical. But I realise in this unexpected formation, a new creation emerges like a new animal creature in a zoo. Often to my colleagues and even to myself it is unexpected. With this, my conceptual plan, form, structure, I begin to create an accidental and unpredictable situation. I create and conceive a mythological or fictional story, loosen up all sense of the measurable and thus discover in each line, each volume, each function, some illogical moment where the most unexpected event may happen. I start imagining so-called fictional, illogical, often impractical events and situations. An urge to become one with fiction takes over. Suddenly my sense of logic and my sense of what I have learnt as an architect disappear. This in turn loosens my sense of logical, functional upbringing. I feel like a child when I read or hear a myth. Often they sound impractical but I see in them the flight of imagination.Īnd to me, this imagination is what life stands for, not necessarily tangible, touchable, but an unknown spirit that makes the heart throb.
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