What Is Creativity?
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to…
Creativity & Vocation
Dorothy Sayers had a few things to say on the subject of the arts & vocation… “The artist is called by God to communicate a vision that she sees, or an understanding she…
Christian Creative: A Manifesto
1. Art is about work. Art is not art while it is still in your imagination. It must be realized. This means that it must be expressed in a physical form. Dance, design,…
Art as Transportation
For me, the main purpose of art is transportation. I’m not talking about murals on the sides of buses. I’m talking about the singular ability of art to pull us, Alice-like, through the…
Myth of the Outsider Artist
I find that contemporary Christian artists have largely bought into the Romantic myth of the outsider artist. They want the Church to appreciate what they do, but they are—many of them at least—completely…
Don’t Be Original
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told…
Seth Godin on Art
Seth Godin had this to say about art: “My definition of art contains three elements: Art is made by a human being. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else….
