creativity

......happiness and the problems that arise when we try to pin things down or group things into categories or describe things. the many different ways we have accounted for the absurdities and uncertainties of the natural and human world. Inventions, things (ideas, substances, visuals, smells) that we ingest, are always changing, maybe because of our insatiable need to create. People often talk of creative geniuses as these esoteric individuals who pull creativity from somewhere out in the void or who have been somehow "blessed" with a "creative" gene. Which is a load of crap. Creativity is about discipline. Which is why so many people are NOT creative; because truly creative things appear as though they came out of the void and so, in attempting to emulate the Greats, the others mistakeingly try to recreate the experience of traveling into the void (hence the drugs, drinking, jackson pollocky stuff) instead of disciplining themselves to a point at which they can be creative doing whatever it is they are doing. really the only two necessary ingredients appear to be willingness and time. and really there is no secret. just discipline. which is why it's cool to actually listen to people talk about their art; because a dot on the wall can be just a dot or it could be the product of some really deep meditation. an inspired dot vs an uninspired dot.

empty
listen
express
delete
empty
listen
express
delete
show others

until you die. or until your creation is what you want it to be; until it's "authentic." i guess authentic, then, means something intentional, well thought out, inspired because you were disciplined enough to remove yourself from the creative act, disciplined enough to shut up and listen, and disciplined enough to weed out what didn't fit.