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Last post 31 Oct 2007 by

mydeadpony

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wickedmartin

So, when are you fellas at the peak of your creativity? Under which circuimstances? At any particular time of the day/week/month/year?

As for me its usually when I'm urged to release a big load of emotions.
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"Through the rise and fall of worlds one greater mind previals,
conjuring new creations as it watches the old ones fail."

Reply 28 Oct 2007

luisaraujo

same with me. but these days its very rare with emotion or without.. i just get creative at best when people leave me alone or i shut myself out when i need some 'me time'
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wickedmartin

luisaraujo said:

same with me. but these days its very rare with emotion or without.. i just get creative at best when people leave me alone or i shut myself out when i need some 'me time'

Thats quite like me. :)

Though what I love mostly is a random, spontaneous creativity... that moment in wich you from nowhere come up with a really genius idea.
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"Through the rise and fall of worlds one greater mind previals,
conjuring new creations as it watches the old ones fail."

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meredith

usually for me its when i am driving in a car or in the bathroom - or at some moment when i can concentrate and people aren't all bothering me - its when i am alone and when i know no one is looking over my shoulder - i also tend to get real creative when i am unable to be anywhere near creative materials. and i hate that. i've tried to write things while driving while still not getting involved in an accident. i am always emotional so its just a matter of gaining control of those emotions and channeling them properly.

I've tried to force creativity, by making the setting, but it just doesn't work like that.

oh and a song! a song can do it to..

Quote 29 Oct 2007

james

Same as you Martin, when there is a surge of emotion. I love when I'm at a library or whatever looking through pho4tography albums and stuff... it just gets me going. Browsing the web too, there's so much that makes me want to open Photoshop and go crazy.

Not necessarily a time, but when I have it I try to make 3it last as long as possible because it only happens so often.

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mydeadpony

Emotions play a big part of the creative process but I noticed that it was more focused and meaningful when associated with the correponding Intellectual drive.

There are no specific moments. Although, the more stressed out by financial problems, the less creative I get.

I am always thinking about ideas, writing them on before they vanish, most of the time never putting them into art because I don't have enough energy to do all of them anyway, and frankly better this way.

Quote 30 Oct 2007

meredith

mydeadpony said:

Emotions play a big part of the creative process but I noticed that it was more focused and meaningful when associated with the correponding Intellectual drive.

Agreed! Logic/Intellect is so important with expression of creativity properly and effectively. :]

Otherwise its just pretentious.

Basing your creativity on emotions only.. you might as well be standing in the middle of a room screaming, causing a scene like a little drama queen/king.

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whiskerz

To get into a zone I need extreme quiet. Once I am there I can hear nothing but my own thoughts. Since I am an outloud thinker it helps if I talk to myself.
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Quote 30 Oct 2007

aesop

meredith said:

mydeadpony said:
Emotions play a big part of the creative process but I noticed that it was more focused and meaningful when associated with the correponding Intellectual drive.

Agreed! Logic/Intellect is so important with expression of creativity properly and effectively. :]

Otherwise its just pretentious.

Basing your creativity on emotions only.. you might as well be standing in the middle of a room screaming, causing a scene like a little drama queen/king.

Most of the time when I'm doing anything creative, its just a straight pen to paper process. I don't think thats pretentious all.. It's a pure expression of what I'm feeling. I don't understand how that makes it vacuous. I think its more pretentious to try and define art as something that needs an intellectual contention behind it.
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meredith

aesop said:

Who said your pen to paper was pretentious?

Do you drizzle your ink on your paper with no thought of where it may land?

We are speaking in terms of creativity, not a definition of Art.

Intellect is necessary to create otherwise it could be quite messy, On so many levels - Outside of art and in any situation in life.

In my experience, making decisions based on emotions is not necessarily the best thing to do.

I wasn't implying your artistic process is pretentious. Simmer down ;]

Quote 31 Oct 2007

mydeadpony

aesop said:

I don't see why you take it personally though.

But that's just what it is, an outpouring of emotions transferred into a visual form whatever it is.
That's fine and I do it as well.
That does not undermine the quality of the technique or visual.
But I sometimes I think there is a need to have a deeper meaning in art because that's such a wonderful medium to touch people and if both sides, emotional and intellectual are in synch, I believe the piece will be better imho.

Man is justifying many things because of his "emotions", without the balancing quality of the intellect it would be difficult to "progress", obviously finding a balance between the two is not as easy as we might suppose osit.

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