From Maria Popova in the Bronx waving at me...on creativity.
Today I'm playing at everything! That's my Sunday. And Maria has given this post today...
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/20/nick-cave-creativity/?mc_cid=29b928a8dc&mc_eid=07332e3c3d
On Nick Cave she said...
"In consonance with Black Mountain College poet and ceramicist M.C. Richards’s lovely notion of creativity as the poetry of our personhood and with anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson’s concept of “composing a life” — which captures with such poetic precision the fundamental fact that our very lives are the ultimate creative work — Cave adds:
Worry less about what you make — that will mostly look after itself, and is to some extent beyond your control, and perhaps even none of your business — and devote yourself to nourishing this animating spirit. Bring all your enthusiasm to bear on the development of that good and essential force. This is done by a commitment to the creative act itself. Each time you tend to that ingenious spark it grows stronger, and sets afire the ordinary gifts of the imagination. The more dedication you show to the process, the better the work, and the greater your gift to the world. Apply yourself fully to the task, let go of the outcome, and your true voice will appear. You’ll see. It can be no other way."
It referenced my own teacher, M.C. Richards...who she's written about here...
and a shorter post here.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/02/25/m-c-richards-centering-creativity/
Sunday morning as January flows slowly away.
