Where to Find Inspiration to Enhance Creativity

The literal meaning of Inspiration is ‘breathed upon'

Every moment, the brain is by nature forming new associations, continually attaching an everyday x to an unexpected y.

All great artists and thinkers are workers; tenacious not only in inventing, but also in ordering, sifting, rejecting, and transforming ideas.

Just because something cannot be immediately solved — or simplified to base laws of real-world physics — does not inherently mean it isn’t tangible. When we go beyond the very edge of our knowledge, is where we find art.

The Latin verb cogito means 'to think' and St. Augustine had observed that the Latin intelligo in fact means ‘to select among.’

To have an idea is to generate new combinations and thought patterns, wholly dependent on the ability to see relationships between different elements at work.

Finding Your Inspiration 

While an idea is being produced, you can become inspired if you temporarily cease working on the problem at hand and turn to whatever stimulates your imagination and emotions. 

Listen to music, watch a theatrical production or go to the movies; visit a gallery or museum, read a poem or a great mystery novel.

Often times at once, and out of nowhere the Idea will appear. It will come to you when you are least expecting it — doing something seemingly unrelated like showering or taking an outdoor stroll —and often when you are half awake in the morning; or it may waken you in the middle of the night.

It requires a great deal of patience to allow most ideas to fit the exact conditions, or the practical exigencies, under which they come in to effect and work best.