{"id":1501,"date":"2015-05-14T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2015-05-14T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:16:59","slug":"creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2015\/05\/creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being creative isn’t something that requires large swaths of time or running away to a retreat. I work full time (and more), and\u00a0somehow find the time for what I love: knitting, teaching about knitting, and writing about knitting. Here are some of my favorite creativity tips from knitters, writers, and artists.<\/p>\n

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  1. \n
    \"Elizabeth<\/a>
    Elizabeth Zimmermann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    \u201cProperly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn’t hurt the untroubled spirit either.\u201d \u2013 Elizabeth Zimmerman<\/b><\/li>\n

  2. But unvented – ahh! One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up, one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground. \u2013 Elizabeth Zimmerman<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. One likes to believe that there is memory in the fingers; memory undeveloped, but still alive.\u201d \u2013 Elizabeth Zimmerman<\/b><\/li>\n
  4. \u201cit is pure potential. Every ball or skein of yarn holds something inside it, and the great mystery of what that might be can be almost spiritual\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>@yarnharlot<\/b><\/li>\n
  5. It’s only knitting and it’s one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.\u201d –@yarnharlot<\/b><\/li>\n
  6. \u201cAll knitting is choreography.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Clara Parkes<\/b><\/li>\n
  7. \u201cThe doing and the daring are the magic keys to unlocking the treasure chest.\u201d \u2013 Reba Linker<\/b><\/li>\n
  8. \u201cI will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.\u201d \u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>@yarnharlot<\/b><\/li>\n
  9. \u201cOthers have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. \u2013Pablo Picasso<\/b><\/li>\n
  10. \n
    \"Two<\/a>
    Two Girls Reading by Pablo Picasso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    \u201cDon’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.\u201d \u2013 Rumi<\/b><\/li>\n

  11. \u201cAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Oscar Wilde<\/b><\/li>\n
  12. \u201cI never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking-Albert Einstein<\/li>\n
  13. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Pablo Picasso<\/b><\/li>\n
  14. \u201cCreativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep \u2013\u00a0Scott Adams<\/b><\/li>\n
  15. \u201cIf you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Ken Robinson<\/b><\/li>\n
  16. \u201cLearn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.\u201d \u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Pablo Picasso<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Being creative isn’t something that requires large swaths of time or running away to a retreat. I work full time (and more), and\u00a0somehow find the time for what I love: knitting, teaching about knitting, and writing about knitting. Here are some of my favorite creativity tips from knitters, writers, and artists. \u201cProperly practiced, knitting soothes […]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}