Posted by Joslynn on January 14, 2005, at 9:04:46
In reply to Is creativity valuable if it isn't shared?, posted by Dinah on January 12, 2005, at 17:00:10
I am in a creative field. My thoughts...Using your therapist's analogy, would Emily Dickinson have written her poetry at all if she had thought it would only be valuable if shared? She had no idea that it would be shared after her death, yet she still wrote it, for the creativity of the moment, that state of flow. I do think that literature and art are meant to be shared eventually, but that initial act of creation is something we can do for ourselves, or more specifically, for the piece of art itself. Just to see it come to life.
However, if he was making that point because you have some really good pieces of artwork, poetry or music that you are hiding in a box or something, maybe he was just trying to encourage you. If you do have something good that you have created, you may be suprised by how much other people will get out of it. Seeing other people's reactions can expand the work in a way that it becomes bigger than it was before.
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