Creativity can turn into an avalanche or a tempest, but can also flow like a meandering tributary to same destination
- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!?- You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!
Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p
Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.
I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everythi...
If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.
Creativity is just about connecting things. A whole lot of nonsense put together, and diluted with a creative passion can eventually make sense. Keep thinking. Exploring. Keep trying out new ways and...
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I woul...
We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.
It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!", May 10, 1886)
Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may ind...
Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations
One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t...
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very huma...
Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.
Why start if you are going to do a half-assed job anyway?
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