Creativity is paradoxical

To create, a person must have knowledge but be able to forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not be disconnected from reality, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard those experts.......so get to it!!!


The artist is not a special person......each one of us is a special kind of artist.