A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.
Interpretation
Creativity often thrives in chaos instead of being stifled by rigid order.
This quote by Michael J. Fox suggests that a state of creative disorder can be more beneficial than a sterile, perfectly organized environment. It implies that the freedom to explore and make mistakes encourages innovation and artistic expression, while an overemphasis on neatness may inhibit one's ability to think outside the box.
In practice
This quote could be used in a presentation about the creative process in art or design.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
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