Repressed psyche = repressed creativity Psychological repression is creative repression. Art is liberating in the same way personal inhibitions stifle creativity. For creativity to blossom there must be freedom. Conversly: The very power of art is that it can destroy those impediments – bringing about the liberation necessary for it to …
Tag: Creativity
Your Toolkit Expands With Your Creativity
Your toolkit expands proportionally to your creativity. The more creative you are — the broader the range of tools are you using. A huge toolbox of tools you have no idea how to use is useless. By idea – I mean a creative idea. You can have all the instruments in the world …
When You’re Not Looking For Solutions — You Find Ideas
When you’re not looking for solutions — you find ideas. When you’re looking for solutions — your vision is constrained by the question you have asked. Question you now feel compelled to answer. You have a certain problem, certain question, and you must solve it. There are many ways of reaching the solution. There …
Forced Creativity is just REPETITION
Forced creativity is just repetition. How do you enforce creativity? What are you enforcing? You have a standard, an ideal of being creative — and now you try to reach it. This standard is obviously repetition. Or else, it wouldn’t be a standard. So you are just repeating what someone did once, and was …
Standards Destroy Creativity And Spontaneity
“You have standards”. What does it mean to have standards? Does it not mean to have limits? Yes, you limit (save) yourself from the possibility of producing substandard work. You also limit yourself from the possibility of producing something brilliant. Do your standards predict genius? Do your standards encapsulate the genius? Standards destroy creativity. …
Excellence Is Anything But A Habit
Excellence is not a habit. Excellence is ANYTHING but a habit. Habit is mediocrity. Habit is repetition. Repetition is death. Habit, it is death. Excellence is not a habit. Else, fucking DEAD would be excellent. Nothing creative is born out of repetition, only more of the the same. To repeat is to change …
Since Art Is Expression, And Expression Is PERSONAL, Surely It (Art) Has To Be Original And Creative, All Else It Is Simply NOT Personal
0/ (One was expressive and made art) 1/ If art is expression, and expression is PERSONAL, surely it has to be original and creative, all else it is simply NOT personal (and not expressive) 2/ How could art be personal unless you give it our own touch? 3/ How could art be personal when you …
Inspiration Comes When There Is No Coercion, No Effort
Effort implies a preconception. We make an effort in order to get into a certain state, in order to get something. That thing that we want, it is conceived by our own mind, it is a result of a though, an idea. What mind can only ever generate is but some fancy permutation of what …
I Like Old People Not Because They’re Old But Because They’re Young
I don’t like old people. I don’t respect old people. Old people are exactly what they are – old. Old is exactly what it is – OLD! Old. Obsolete. Outdated. Worn out. I like the old people, though! Particularly, when they are young. Especially, when they are young. Exclusively, when they are young. …
You Are Bored For You Escape The Boredom And You Overstimulate And You Overdo And You Only Further Lose Interest As Your Interest Is Never Satisfied And So It Goes
You were greedy and you wanted more. More toys more noise more action. We live in some indulgent times with indulgent media indulgent internet indulgent smartphones and indulgent consumption. You indulged and the more you indulged the less you felt, like a heroine junkie long into his downward loop… You indulged and the more you …