I just found a pretty awesome quote over at a blog called EvilEddie:
- “Today I am firmly convinced that basically and on the whole all creative ideas appear in our youth, in so far as any such are present. I distinguish between the wisdom of age, consisting solely in greater thoroughness and caution due to the experience of a long life, and the genius of youth, which pours out thoughts and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, but cannot for the moment develop them because of their very abundance. It is this youthful genius which provides the building materials and plans for the future, from which a wiser age takes the stones, carves them and completes the edifice, in so far as the so-called wisdom of age has not stifled the genius of youth.”
The craziest part is that apparently is a quote from Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Check it out here.
Evil geniuses aside, I wholeheartedly agree with this passage. It’s been one of the biggest most important lessons for me creatively - to go back to this place I inhabited as a kid, and pull back from that place all the things I always was so in love with. And then to take those, and apply my skill and experience to give them more beautiful and useful shapes. This website & all my work is a fantastic example of that. I’ve ALWAYS been into this stuff since I was a little kid: religion, sci fi, the paranormal, comics, movies, shit like that. It all fits together, and ever since I was able to go back and open up that wellspring of childish ideas, I’ve been relentlessly creative. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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