The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.
When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
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