“Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
–Charles Mingus

It’s another Creative Sunday. So play your ukulele, putter in the woodworking shop, invent a game with your kids, or check out the Habithacker Pinterest board, Creative Sundays, for inspiration. (I snapped the photo above in New Orleans. Someone got a bit exuberant with their shoes.)

Here’s the rest of the quote from jazz great Mingus, which gives a nice nod, I think, to having technique training before wandering off into originality:

“My son’s a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he’s a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn’t. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable. Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”