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Creative Power
What distinguishes humans from other living beings? Quite clearly – its creative power. No other living being is capable of willfully and permanently creating something new and unprecedented. Art and artistic creation are the impulses of every human being, enabling expression of the inexpressible, of suffering and joy, of strength and longing. Creation does not come from the head, […]
Genius or Scenius?
Today, while driving down into the valley through the damp clouds, I listened to an interview by Geoff Goins with Austin Kleon (the author of ‘Steal Like An Artist’) which wided my view in the metaphorical sense. What I took away from it: first the sentence “There is no creation in isolation” combined with his view that there are no geniuses, but only sceniuses.
Start ugly!
Almost every artist knows this: you start your painting carefully, perhaps with a precise preliminary drawing, at first you are quite enthusiastic about the result, but the more colour you apply, the ‘worse’ it gets! Right up to the stage where you are convinced that you have completely ruined the painting […]
