Curiosity Drives Creation

Curiosity is what drives all creation, innovation, and research. I want to encourage you to open to curiosity throughout our time together. Let’s explore some questions, these can be journal prompts or simply ideas, or inspiration to take into your days. I suggest that you start to carry around a small notebook and jot down all the ideas and perceptions that grab you throughout the day. 

Does the world embody beautiful ideas?

Artists, as well as scientists throughout human history, have pondered this “beautiful question.” Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. he answered, Yes: The world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls. Does the world embody beautiful ideas in your experience?

In what ways can you let go into illumination?

The Attraction of Things,” states Lewinter, “is the story of a being who lets himself go toward what attracts him, toward what he attracts—beings, works, things—and who, through successive encounters, finds the way out of the labyrinth, to the heart, where the bolt of illumination strikes. This is the story of a letting go toward the illumination.” 

Can we stay in child-like curiosity?

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Picasso

“The assumption of innocence within the context of experience”, Robert Fripp

What is the purpose of Art?

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” Picasso. What is the purpose of Art in your experience?

What is your relationship with your imagination?

“Everything you can imagine is real.” Picasso

Ask Why Seven Times

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Where does it take you?