Crocodiles and machines

Aleksei Bitskoff June 27, 2019

The zen way to create art is by not doing it. It's already created within the mind-space of this reality, long before the artist, the shaman, the creator even had a thought about it. This is the reason I don't use eraser in my art and allow the creative flow take its own direction and manifest something which was already there but unseen and unnoticed. The zen way is to relax, inhale, exhale, then step aside and let things happen.

Mastery

“We are all in search of feeling more connected to reality—to other people, the times we live in, the natural world, our character, and our own uniqueness. Our culture increasingly tends to separate us from these realities in various ways. We indulge in drugs or alcohol, or engage in dangerous sports or risky behavior, just to wake ourselves up from the sleep of our daily existence and feel a heightened sense of connection to reality. In the end, however, the most satisfying and powerful way to feel this connection is through creative activity. Engaged in the creative process we feel more alive than ever, because we are making something and not merely consuming, Masters of the small reality we create. In doing this work, we are in fact creating ourselves.”

― Robert Greene, Mastery

Curiosity

"Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths".

Walt Disney