Creative limitation is the concept of how purposely limiting oneself can actually drive creativity. At a 2013
TED conference
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, artist
Phil Hansen made several remarks concerning the value of limitations, among them that "We need to first be limited in order to become limitless,” and “If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.”
Creative limitation can also be thought of as a way to achieve a novel effect or goal that is not otherwise possible using
conventional, readily accessible, methods.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the ...
used what he called creative limitation with
time signature
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s, by restricting himself from using any, in his
composition
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'
The Rite of Spring
''The Rite of Spring''. Full name: ''The Rite of Spring: Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts'' (french: Le Sacre du printemps: tableaux de la Russie païenne en deux parties) (french: Le Sacre du printemps, link=no) is a ballet and orchestral ...
' as well as in alternate aspects of his other musical works.
See also
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Oulipo
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Selective retention
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References
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