Moody, erratic, eccentric, and arrogant?
Perhaps — but you can't just get rid of them.
Harvard Business Review - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
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The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - Caspar David Friedrich
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“There is nothing as
deceptive as an obvious
fact.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld - Corot
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Pygmalion and Galatea - Laurent Pécheux
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And carv'd in iv'ry such a maid, so fair,
As Nature could not with his art
compare
Ovid - Metamorphoses X
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The SpinnersThe SpinnersThe SpinnersThe Fable of Arachne/The Spinners - Velázquez
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One at the loom so excellently skill'd,
That to the Goddess she refus'd to yield.
Low was her birth, and small her native
town,
She from her art alone obtain'd renown
Ovid - Metamorphoses VI
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Prometheus - Otto Greiner
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Thou art a symbol and a sign
To Mortals of their fate and force;
Like thee, Man is in part divine,
A troubled stream from a pure source
Prometheus - Lord Byron
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Orpheus - Roman mosaic
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Persephone he seeks, and him who reigns
O'er ghosts, and Hell's uncomfortable plains.
Arriv'd, he, tuning to his voice his strings,
Thus to the king and queen of shadows sings.
Ovid - Metamorphoses X
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Sistine Chapel - North and East Walls
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“If no one took any
risks, Michaelangelo
would have painted the
Sistine floor.”
Neil Simon
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Play | Joan Miro - Femme Se Poudrant
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“rules need to be set before starting so the
work has a more focused direction to
travel...These limitations are the fuel for
improvisation, becoming the barriers that
hold the sand in the sandbox so that we can
play.”
Frank Chimero - The shape of design
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Atley G. Kasky
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Atley G. Kasky
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Olivetti - Anna Monika Jost
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Matthew Epler
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“invention...could not possibly have been
achieved by anyone lacking the ability to
improvise and the patience to play with a
specific material: to see the myriad
possibilities and discover the ideal form.”
Paul Rand - Design and the Play Instinct
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Personal | MIT Meida Lab
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MIT Media Lab Identity
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F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity Packaging - GSYBE
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Possibilities | Paul Klee - Dream City
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The Seal of Solomon - Joshua Davis
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Viola Helleborus - Joshua Davis
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Meru - Andy Gilmore
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Meru detail - Andy Gilmore
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“Sometimes the results of graceful
rethinking can be thought of as magic,
because it produces something we
previously thought to be impossible. It
subverts the established ways of working…
Laid bare in his work is an example of how
craft and art grow, how they serve as an
example of a new possibility”
Frank Chimero - The shape of design