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“Straight lines are the limit case of curves, not curves some special case of straight lines”

Dr Iain McGilchrist, CERN Lecture 2023: Perspectives on the nature of reality to inform systemic change.

#curved folds #dr iain mcgilchrist

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“Simplicity is the limit case of complexity.”

Dr Iain McGilchrist in his wide ranging & fascinating lecture: “perspectives on the natural of reality to inform systemic change.” CERN November 2023

#creativity #simplicity #dr Iain mcgilchrist #Youtube

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“Art is not an object, art is an experience.”

Josef Albers

Students and colleagues of Albers at Yale reflect on studying and working with the master.

#josef albers #art #design #Youtube

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Howard Jacobson, BBC radio 4 a point of view

“Anyone who tells you they know where art comes from knows nothing. At the end of every day Picasso marvelled at what he’d made, so little of it bore relation to what he had intended to make.”

“We don’t have to invoke divine inspiration to explain this difference between the artist’s aims and the finished work - how much more bewildering when the individual gift for creation encounters the medium in which creation happens.”

#Howard Jacobson #art #material

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Art work deals with the problem of a piece of art, but more, it teaches the process of creating, the shaping out of the shapeless. We learn that no painting exists before it is done, no form before it is shaped. The conception of a work gives only its temper, not it’s consistency. Things take shape in material and in the process of working it, and no imagination is great enough to know before the works are done what they will be like.

Anni Albers: We Need the Crafts for their Contact with Materials, 1944

#art #crafts #anni albers #creativity #material #paper #Youtube

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Josef Albers:

“My homage to the way art has led me to demonstrate what colour does to us.”

#josef albers #colour #art #Youtube

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“You were a whiz at origami. Why?

For obsessives it’s a focus – I could latch on to it to stop my brain from eating itself. I still do it. At the last school council at St Andrews [Paterson is soon to retire as professor of poetry at the university], I found myself folding an alien tortoise.”

#don paterson #origami #literature

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Rules obeyed unconsciously are far stronger than those set on purpose and they are far more likely to undermine the work.

Every Innovation risks becoming a rule, and innovation risk becoming an end in itself.

Rick Rubin “The Creative Act: a way of being.”

#rick rubin #creatvity

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I have designed more cats than any other of my origami animals. I made my first origami cats in 2004. And ever since they still come out of the paper (after dreaming a long dream, when inspiration comes, when a piece of paper agrees to play with me).

Giang Dinh in a feature on his work by Arches paper

https://arches-papers.com/this-is-the-year-of-the-cat/?fbclid=IwAR2lWX1735DDgHtTUVBrlOOSMjCjDWq86f2NAvU--5CSCFLyRnAB2eRPX1k

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“After I design it, anybody can make it. So that is very attractive to me.”

Ai Wei Wei, About his artwork, after Monet’s water lilies made of Lego.

BBC radio 4 start the week https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kwts?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

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No human endeavour requires freedom as much as creativity does.

To create one needs a kind of formless roving of the mind to go nowhere and anywhere and everywhere. It is from that swell that art emerges.

Chimamanada Ngozi Adichie, BBC Reith Lectures 2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fmtz?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

#creativity #chimananda ngozi adichie #bbc #reith lectures #literature

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“All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.”

— Friedrich Schelling, On University Studies

#philosophy #friedrich schelling #creativity

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“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”

— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique

#voltaire #simplicity #philosophy

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“Design is not for philosophy, it’s for life. The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.”

Issey Miyake RIP.

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“Origami has led to friendships and lured me on adventures, but at the end of the day, I’m still that three-year-old kid who thinks a dinosaur puppet is cool.”

Travis Nolan combines origami and palaeontology

https://prestonhollow.advocatemag.com/2022/07/08/origami-champ-travis-nolan-smus-paper-folding-paleontologist-in-the-making/

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“The more experienced a person gets, the more simplicity is profound.”

Keith Jarrett, BBC Documentary 2022

#simplicity #keith jarrett

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“While most researchers’ attention is naturally drawn to a letter’s written contents, the material evidence on surviving opened letters, such as crease marks and wax seals, testifies to thousands of folding techniques employed over the centuries to turn a flat sheet of paper into a secure letterpacket.”

The Spiral-Locked Letters of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, Jennifer Pellecchia, Alison Wiggins, Andrea Clarke, and Alan Bryson

Illustrations by Nicole Araya, Annie Dunn, Matthew Li, and Jana Dambrogio

Folding when lives depended on it - letter locking as used by Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots is uncovered in brilliant study from the British Library.

https://bl.iro.bl.uk/downloads/77335a38-9758-4d87-902a-b3d0298282de?locale=en

#history #letters #origami #origami quote #british library