"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."
~ T.S. Eliot
"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."
~ Pablo Picasso
"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
~ Jean Dubuffet
"Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons."
~ Demi Lovato
~ Julia Margaret Cameron
"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."
~ Madeleine L'Engle
A writer must accept that there is a certain amount of creative madness that accompanies this work of the written word. Without the open threshold that separates the sane and logical from blissful madness, much would remain untapped from a realm that most often remains an undiscovered mystery.
It is the unexplainable push to plunge and explore - navigating deeper the foreign maze of neural folds into that pristine source of the undiscovered allowing the vulnerability of the creative mind and its ideas to be unleashed on the page - as if emancipating declarations of thought before the reading sphere. It is a sensory pilgrimage that often chances the risk of emotional peril revealing words that express, provoke, convey, relay, sell, hide, embellish, lift, conceal, reveal, convince, unveil, build up or tear down, expose or possibly pierce the soul.....
Most often it is the soul of the writer laid upon the public guillotine.
Will it be read? Should it be read?
Ever.
In the end, there is only fear. How a writer harnesses that fear is the magic - unless the gift of eccentricities are woven within the gene pool.
The eccentric have no fear.
And all the writer can do is close the eyes, allow the internal music to stream and grant passage for the words to flow.
It is the unexplainable push to plunge and explore - navigating deeper the foreign maze of neural folds into that pristine source of the undiscovered allowing the vulnerability of the creative mind and its ideas to be unleashed on the page - as if emancipating declarations of thought before the reading sphere. It is a sensory pilgrimage that often chances the risk of emotional peril revealing words that express, provoke, convey, relay, sell, hide, embellish, lift, conceal, reveal, convince, unveil, build up or tear down, expose or possibly pierce the soul.....
Most often it is the soul of the writer laid upon the public guillotine.
Will it be read? Should it be read?
Ever.
In the end, there is only fear. How a writer harnesses that fear is the magic - unless the gift of eccentricities are woven within the gene pool.
The eccentric have no fear.
And all the writer can do is close the eyes, allow the internal music to stream and grant passage for the words to flow.
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
~ Erma Bombeck
Recognize the risk involved for a dream to be shared. Realize the sacred trust invested in the writer's confidant.
Guard the dreams; protect the dreamer.
Guard the dreams; protect the dreamer.
"...it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude......You have no idea what I'm talking about I'm sure......"
~ Lester Burnham, *American Beauty*
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