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Creative Power

What distinguishes humans from other living beings?

Quite clearly – it's 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, it comes from the heart or rather from the soul. Yes, our soul paints, pastes, mashes and plays, creates the stuff that dreams are made of.

All people have inner images – as diverse as people are on the outside. Paint a picture every day – and no two will be the same or even identical. Not even your own will be identical, let alone those of other people.

There is nothing more individual than your inner pictures, your very own creative power. So there is no better or worse – only DIFFERENT.

We learned in our childhood that ‘being different’ is dangerous and ostracizes us. But the truth is that life needs us to be different. A jigsaw puzzle has lots of unique pieces, no two are the same, otherwise there would be chaos. Each piece has its place and if just one is missing, the whole puzzle is worthless. Everyone’s picture contributes to the overall picture. So no one should complain about their expression, their being this way and no other. After all, that’s exactly where their value lies for the whole.

That’s why you shouldn’t compare yourself to anyone. If you try to be someone else, you’ll ruin the puzzle, destroy the overall picture – because the other person already exists, but your place would remain empty in the future!

So be happy about the way you are, about your very individual way of expressing yourself. (HA)

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 […]

What does he mean by this? In his view, there are no highly or less highly gifted people, but every creative person needs appropriate support from her environment in order to be able to do ‘good creative work’ or any creative work at all. Mozart or Beethoven were born into an appropriate environment. He calls this a ‘scene’, so he calls people who have this support a scenius instead of a genius. I found this thought quite exciting, because I often wondered why some people “just make it”, usually still with ease, and others get nowhere. Although they are not worse or less talented. Often even more. This could be at least one explanation.

Accordingly, I personally am neither a genius nor a scenius :-) – like probably most of us. However, lately I’m trying more and more to do only what brings me joy when doing creative things and not to look so much at the “perfect” result. That’s easier said than done, though. But I notice very clearly in the end result whether it was forced, so to speak, or whether it went easily from my hand full of joy. Forced work always has something stiff and lifeless about it, no matter how technically perfect it may be. I am therefore no longer surprised that artists who can paint technically perfect pictures suddenly want to paint like children again. How about you?