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If there aren't any limitations... what is creativity? We need something to break.
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its wierd because i think i am most creative with confines of rules and conventions. because then i break out of the rules and realize what i can do.
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I'm probably more creative with rules. If there are no limitations, I get overwhelmed. However, rules allow me to be so creative, I want to break the rules. I think that's what creativity is about.
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I thrive in the creative context of team. Without honest talkback, I rarely produce a finished product, as the sharpening of other trusted artists always enhances my personal craft. It's really sucky to expose your writing or songwriting, but I strongly encourage surrounding yourself with trusted artists.
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I need a bit of limitation, in the form of direction. Creativity by being pushed towards a blank paper with "do something" leaves me more lost and confused than free. Sort of like top-down processing as opposed to bottom-up, I need context more than just the means.
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As a designer it is much more of a challenge 4 me creatively 2 work within parameters....but the results
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As a designer it is much more of a challenge 4 me creatively 2 work within parameters....but the results
Of thinking outside of the box while working within the box pushes creative solutions & expands my design
2 places I might not go without them
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Being honest with yourself with total disregard for convention is the only true way to be creative. I think setting creative limitations for yourself just means you're fearful of rejection or criticisms.
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Im most creative when i am appreciated and well rested! Whether i have boumdaries or not, what i create will come from me, and so it will by default be new, original and one-of-a-kind... When appreciated and rested, my creations sparkle.
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I feel that limitations in creativity, if there are any, aren't necessarily limitations. I like how melb2 used the word prompts instead, because any such statement or request that provokes the work of a creator is but a prompt. Think of a house.
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I feel that limitations in creativity, if there are any, aren't necessarily limitations. I like how melb2 used the word prompts instead, because any such statement or request that provokes the work of a creator is but a prompt. Think of a house.
Without a foundation, there's nowhere to build. But when given a foundation, the appearance of what is built upon is at the whim of the mind of the creator. However, a painter or dancer needs no foundation on which to free their mind. For this reason, creativity can flourish equally with or without these foundations/limitations.
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I think every artist has /some/ kind of inspiration, even if they don't know it. prompts are just a "shortcut".
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I think every artist has /some/ kind of inspiration, even if they don't know it. prompts are just a "shortcut".
I mean, whoda thunk sunflowers could inspire anyone?
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I don't think the creative spirit is bound by any such rules. It is present and active and flourishes where there are "limitations" to keep it within boundaries that will render it still palatable to the society. Sort of "safe" creativity.
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I don't think the creative spirit is bound by any such rules. It is present and active and flourishes where there are "limitations" to keep it within boundaries that will render it still palatable to the society. Sort of "safe" creativity.
But it flourishes just as much with absolute freedom -- but can become too controversial or unfocused or even meaningless to anyone but yourself to be generally accepted. But it is no less creative.
I've found that there is the creative expression that is mainly for oneself as an exploration of oneself and then there is the creative expression that one hopes to offer up for others to partake of.
Many of you have seen my photos on the group and on Panoramio/Google Earth. http://www.panoramio.com/user/851964. They are photos of life and growth and celebration. But I also take pictures of death and decay and mourning. Sometimes so graphic that those I do show them to find that discomfort overshadows enjoyment. I've asked myself why I take such pics? They are simply a part of the creative process in me that recognizes that all the beauty . . . does have a flip-side.
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If I'm creating food, I flourish within limitations. Some of my best creations came when I was limited from a client's dietary restrictions or when my pantry/fridge were bare.
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I prefer boundaries. I like thinking of the most common response, then dispensing with it and trying to come up with more creative solutions.
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In many situations having rules and restrictions can block an idea that could have truly been phenomenal. However, I find that I do better when I have some sort of convention to ground me. When given a color scheme, a subject, or theme it's easier for me to break away from that and take it where I see it; to interpret it my own way. When told to do whatever I think or feel, I blank, I get lost because there are so many possibilities. I find having some guidelines helpful to direct my thought process.
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Boundaries provide rules to break and offer an opportunity to approach from angles I'd not thought of before. I've rarely done my best work without something to push against.
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a tight brief, or framework I choose to conform to, can bring the best out in me - as it often does in others...
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a tight brief, or framework I choose to conform to, can bring the best out in me - as it often does in others...
Michaelangelo never had any artistic freedom at all.- but I reckon music and fine art have by and large disappeared up their own asses - and the critics have gone there with them.
Architecture at least has the rules of function and gravity to keep it honest.
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i don't like limitations.
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i don't like limitations.
that said, i'm rarely given the chance to be creative, so idk. this question doesn't really apply to me.
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Whenever you try to force conventions on people someone will do something to break 'em. That's what they are there for in my mind.
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I am definitely most creative within some sort of boundaries. If given a writing prompt or a subject for a poem (which is probably more like a general theme), I flourish. If I am told "do whatever you want! Be creative! Express yourself!" I have no clue what to do. However, when I am given boundaries, I usually start off on the right track, and end up creating something that has nothing to do with the original prompt. This leads me to believe that I am subconsciously afraid that I am not going to be creative enough to come up with something on my own, so I trick myself into thinking I can't work unless I have some sort of guidelines.
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I think it is precisely the constraints that make something art as opposed to emotional venting (which has its place, but it's not art, in my opinion).
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I think it is precisely the constraints that make something art as opposed to emotional venting (which has its place, but it's not art, in my opinion).
I'm never impressed with a free-form poem. But I admire a villanelle, or the stark minimalism of someone like William Carlos Williams.
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The accepted criteria for good art or music change. They have varied throughout history. I think that, for the most part, people are rewarded for using the currently liked style very skillfully or in a slightly different way. I may try to create something original (not that I am so artistic), but only my child and spouse will like it.
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In writing, it works either way for me. I have so many ideas, that limitations are sometimes relaxing!
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I'm extremely creative in both situations, but also not creative in both. I took photography in high school. My first teacher always gave us directions on what to do. I felt held back and was nervous because I had so many ideas that I wanted to try but couldn't because it wasn't what we were supposed to do. But my second year, I had a teacher whose motto was to try and fail and do everything we wanted because he knew we could. I was so excited to try all of my ideas, but I couldn't do it. I didn't know where to start.
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I'm extremely creative in both situations, but also not creative in both. I took photography in high school. My first teacher always gave us directions on what to do. I felt held back and was nervous because I had so many ideas that I wanted to try but couldn't because it wasn't what we were supposed to do. But my second year, I had a teacher whose motto was to try and fail and do everything we wanted because he knew we could. I was so excited to try all of my ideas, but I couldn't do it. I didn't know where to start.
Therefore, I think I'm at my most creative when I'm free, but have slight direction.
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For me, I have a much more difficult time being creative under limitations than I do under an almost chaotic freedom. There's something to be said about pulling an idea from one's own subconscious and pressing it to page.
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