{"id":1931,"date":"2017-04-10T09:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2017-04-10T09:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:59:30","slug":"we-learn-from-those-around-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/quotes\/we-learn-from-those-around-us\/","title":{"rendered":"We learn from those around us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we start out as aspiring writers or artists, we imagine that creativity is something that arrives in a magical dream. It is a gift that we are given to share with the world.<\/p>\n<p>Except it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what you may have read on the internet, creativity is not about being inspired or having a direct hotline to a creative muse, like anything else, it&#8217;s about learning from those around us and then finding a way to offer our unique interpretation of that information to others. It&#8217;s not about plagiarism or imitation, it&#8217;s simply about building on what has been done before.<\/p>\n<p>The great secret of creativity then\u00a0is that we don&#8217;t have to come up with something the world has never seen before. We only have to see it from a new perspective.<\/p>\n<p>[Thanks go out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jasonadamfreed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Freed<\/a> for sharing this image with us!]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we start out as aspiring writers or artists, we imagine that creativity is something that arrives in a magical dream. It is a gift that we are given to share with the world. Except it&#8217;s not. Despite what you may have read on the internet, creativity is not about50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3,22],"tags":[586,589,587,588],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funnystuff","category-quotes","category-success","tag-secret-of-creativity-is-hiding-your-source","tag-the-secret-of-creativity-is-knowing-how-to-hide-your-sources","tag-the-secret-of-creativity-is-to-hide-your-sources","tag-what-is-the-secret-of-creativity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/inspiring-quotations-25.jpg?fit=500%2C709&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Luu2-v9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}