interesting thoughts

'Blue-sky thinking, finding the inner you; if you look up ‘creativity’ on the internet you’ll be bombarded with sites to help you get in contact with your creative potential. I blame Joseph Beuys, that modern art guru of fat and felt, who claimed “everyone is an artist”. Now we all feel we have something to say. But do we? Of course Beuys didn’t mean everyone has the potential to be a Picasso. Motivated by utopian beliefs, culled from Romantic writers such as Novalis and the anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner, he believed in the power of universal human creativity to bring about revolutionary change. '

from Sue Hubbard on Creativity - full article here

I really found Sue Hubbard's article on creativity interesting in the Observer Magazine yesterday. That creativity can often be an outouring from a life that doesn't smell like roses. It also reminded me about how great the concept of the School of Life is. The School of Life is a new social enterprise offering good ideas for everyday living. Check it out - www.schooloflife.com