The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
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The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.
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