34: Benevolence and Creativity
non nobis solum nati That’s a quote from Cicero’s On Duties, which he seemingly got from Plato. It basically means we’re created for the sake of othe...
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My name is John Fanning, and I believe everyone is creative. I’m grateful to be able to share insights I’ve gleaned about the Walls that lead us away from creativity and the Doors which inspire towards a of creativity. Later, I’ll have conversations about creative practice and inspiration with many of the writers, artists and creators I met at the retreat I founded in the south of France, and here in the Portland, Maine area. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts, and please subscribe, rate and review the podcast if you enjoy it, so others can find out about it. CREATE.
33: Audience and Representation
I don’t think that an artist should bother about his audience. His best audience is the person he sees in his shaving mirror every morning. I think th...
32: Community and Creativity
“It has nothing to do with me.” “But it must hurt you?” “Why would it? It has nothing to do with me.” That’s a back and forth the writer and academi...
31: Voice and Vocation
Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this...
30: Play and Creativity
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. So that’s supposed to be a quote from George Bernard Shaw. I don’t kno...
Episode 29: Spirituality and Creativity
I think the chanciest thing is to put spirituality in art. Because people don’t understand it. Writers don’t know what to do with it. They’re scared o...
Episode 28: Inspiration and Rituals
Whenever there is inspiration, which translates as “in spirit,” and enthusiasm, which means “in God,” there is a creative empowerment that goes far be...
27: Emotions, Feelings and Emotional Memory
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Tha...
26: Acceptance and Change
What worked for you on Tuesday will work on Thursday, a claim that cannot always be made when what you hold in your hand is a paintbrush or a camera o...
25: Awareness, Sacredness and Distractions
When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie do...