How does our self concept, our identity, affect creative expression?
How do we find creative passions and how does pursuing them demand changes in our life?
One example of an artist who has addressed these questions is Natalie Fobes.
A bio on her site …
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Relentlessly Being More Creative
Part of the widely-circulated comments by Pearl Buck (winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938) includes this: “The truly creative mind [feels] the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music o…
Creating Art Is About Being In The World
What is art? Where do you make it? Where do you show it?
How you think about those questions can impact how you see yourself as a creator, and what you do about being one.
Artist Robert Irwin, a pioneer of the Light and Space movement, in 1970 abandon…
Isaac Asimov On How To Be Creative
Isaac Asimov participated in a team project in 1959 for ARPA – the Advanced Research Projects Agency – and wrote an essay for the group on developing creativity. Here are a few excerpts: “How do people get new ideas? “Presumably, the process of creativity, whatever it is, is essentially the same in all its branches […]
Can You Be Present in Your Art and Your ‘Real’ Life?
Acting, writing and other forms of creative expression can help us better understand life, both as artist and audience. But as a performer or other artist, can you get too caught up in the fantasy life of your creative work? And how do you think of yourself as a creative person? That can affect how […]