We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
Interpretation
Artists often express their desires and conflicts through their work, highlighting what they lack.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the act of creating, whether writing or painting, is often fueled by a mixture of hopes for what we strive to achieve and the struggles we face. Artists depict not just their experiences but also the qualities they aspire to possess and the ideals they challenge, reflecting a deeper layer of human emotion and ambition.
In practice
In a discussion about the creative process during a workshop.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are unnecessary.
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
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