INSPIRATIONS
As an artist, I like to invite people into my process because the process is just as important as the staged production. Therefore, on this page, I share with you the quotes, music, videos, and other seemingly “random” things that inspired me while writing the play.
Quotes
These are quotes that inspired me, and I hope they inspire you too!
“For no man can be blessed without the acceptance of his own head.”
“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.”
"The wise Africans knew and understood the power of the mind. People can only be as good as their thoughts, as successful as mental patterns, as progressive of their ideas. Africans did not rely on books, relative theories or postulative quotations. They listened to their thoughts, prayed for divine guidance, followed the intuitive urging. Education, money, fame and notoriety were considered as useful as dirty dishwater without a clear, firm, focused mind. The process was simple. They developed a strong faith and connection to the Creator. A healthy love and respect for their ancestors and parents. A commitment and dedication to the traditions of their family. And a trusting relationship to the spirit of their own head. Trust your head and your first thought regardless of what others may say. Your head takes you to the places you want to go. I bless the spirit of my head.”
“There is an old sanskrit word "lila" which means play, richer than our word it means divine play. The play of creation, destruction, and recreation, the folding, and unfolding of the cosmos. Lila may also be the simplest thing there is, spontaneous, childish, disarming.”
"When we are actually creating a work of art there is a sense of total confidence. Our message is simply one of appreciating the nature of things as they are and expressing it without any struggle of thoughts and fears. We give up aggression, both towards ourselves, that we have to make a special effort to impress people, and towards others, that we can put something over them."
"In a sense, all art is improvisation some improvisations are presented as is: whole and at once. Others are doctored improvisations which have been revised, and restructured over a period of time before the public gets to enjoy the work."
"We have no art, everything we do is art."
"The mystic or visionary attitude expands,and concretizes art, science, and daily life as well."
“How are we going to organize our life so that we can afford to produce beautiful things, not at the expense or the suffering of others?”
"It is sometimes thought that in improvisation we can do just anything, but lack of a conscious plan does not mean that our work is random or arbitrary. Improvisation always has its rules even if they are not a priori rules. When we are totally faithful to our own individuality we are actually following a very intricate design this kind of freedom is the opposite of just anything. We carry around the rules inherit in our organism as living patterned beings we are incapable of producing anything random. We cannot even program a computer to produce random numbers. The most we can do is create a pattern so complex that we get an illusion of randomness."
“In North America, people graduate from college and leave home–or sometimes leave home even before that. There's no sense of home then. They begin to live out of a suitcase and get a job-secretarial, management, depending on their capabilities. People begin to develop an interesting relationship with reality in that way. You don't see how things are produced, what things are made out of, how things have been done. You might see a silk-screened design and like it, so you buy it without knowing about the process of silk-screening. Or you might buy a carpet, not knowing the weavers or the carpentry world at all. And when things go wrong, usually we call a specialist. “
"Play is without why. It is self-existant. Play is done that it is done."
"You must act as if it is impossible to fail”
“Unfortunately, art has now become an economic investment, which is a great obstacle to the artist. It doesn't leave us with very much to work on.”
"When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it."
“For theater as we know it to have any future at all, a new economic model must take its place, founded on a simple principle: Fund artists directly. Then let the artists produce their own work, rent their own venues and pay their own collaborators."
“The basic problem in artistic endeavor is the tendency to split the artist from the audience and then try send a message from one to the other. When this happens, art becomes exhibitionism.”
Music :
These are the songs I listened to over the course of writing the play.
Music Inspiration - It's No Ordinary Thing
Inspirational Videos :
Throughout writing the play, I watched a plethora of inspirational videos so that I stayed motivated and dedicated to the process of writing the play.
Articles :
Here are some articles that inspired me while writing the play.
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