How the mundane list is stellar inspiration ... click!

Here's how brainpickings.org describes the following images (go forth and donate! They're amazing folks donating all their time ...) My point in posting this is to demonstrate the enormous creativity you too can engage in:

The Lists, To-dos and Illustrated Inventories of Great Artists

After a voyeuristic look inside the notebooks and sketchbooks of great creators, here comes a peek inside an even more private facet of the creative self: the list. Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Collections of the Smithsonian Museum offers a surprisingly intriguing glimpse of some of the 20th century’s most remarkable creators — including Pablo Picasso, Joseph Cornell, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Andrew Wyethand Janice Lowry, among dozens of others — revealing their personal habits, priorities and decision-making schemata through the lens of the seemingly mundane and, in the process, demystifying artmaking and the creative life.

From the papers of Aline and Eero 

Harry Bertoia ... ? Lovely.

Pablo Picasso. Who else?

Janice Lowry

My absolutely most favorite artist - Franz Kline's LIQUOR receipt. My oh my. Was he having a party????

The graphic packing list of Adolf Conrad. I am going to do this for my camp trailer!