Comments on: Creative Genius http://www.damienfranco.com/2009/02/10/creative-genius/ Ramblings of an emerging contemporary art photographer in West Texas. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:05:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Wondering http://www.damienfranco.com/2009/02/10/creative-genius/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Wondering Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:26:21 +0000 http://www.damienfranco.com/?p=214#comment-289 Do the thoughts "being creative" and "having goals" belong in the same side of the brain? I can see that making a lot of pieces of art can sharpen the skills, hand and eye, required for a masterpiece, but the skills are necessary but secondary to the creative process. It is vision, the ethereal kind, that seem to me to bring forth the better works of art, and the "ideas" don't come in a steady flow. A goal might be to use your skills to their best advantage.....but in the service of your IDEA. I think that every artist has ups and downs...and that it is a good thing to continue to sharpen skills....ideas come in at a random pace, and you must be ready. Do the thoughts “being creative” and “having goals” belong in the same side of the brain? I can see that making a lot of pieces of art can sharpen the skills, hand and eye, required for a masterpiece, but the skills are necessary but secondary to the creative process. It is vision, the ethereal kind, that seem to me to bring forth the better works of art, and the “ideas” don’t come in a steady flow.
A goal might be to use your skills to their best advantage…..but in the service of your IDEA.
I think that every artist has ups and downs…and that it is a good thing to continue to sharpen skills….ideas come in at a random pace, and you must be ready.

]]> By: haber http://www.damienfranco.com/2009/02/10/creative-genius/comment-page-1/#comment-288 haber Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:41:19 +0000 http://www.damienfranco.com/?p=214#comment-288 thank you thank you

]]> By: Damien Franco http://www.damienfranco.com/2009/02/10/creative-genius/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Damien Franco Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:37:28 +0000 http://www.damienfranco.com/?p=214#comment-287 Of course you're allowed to blither on. That's what the whole comments section is all about. I know exactly how you feel. I don't know that I should strive for creating a masterpiece but I feel as if I need some sort of goal. Perhaps it's a matter of setting smaller bite sized goals such as; getting x number of pieces done or participating in x number of shows or whatever. I think I'm needing to re-evaluate my artistic goals for this year. Of course you’re allowed to blither on.

That’s what the whole comments section is all about.

I know exactly how you feel. I don’t know that I should strive for creating a masterpiece but I feel as if I need some sort of goal. Perhaps it’s a matter of setting smaller bite sized goals such as; getting x number of pieces done or participating in x number of shows or whatever.

I think I’m needing to re-evaluate my artistic goals for this year.

]]> By: Jafabrit http://www.damienfranco.com/2009/02/10/creative-genius/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Jafabrit Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:17:12 +0000 http://www.damienfranco.com/?p=214#comment-286 How timely this post is for me. I am going through some kind of a flux, can't call it a block really, but somehow this year I just wanted to stop trying to be artist and just be. In a way it is a little scary as I love painting, but am not painting. I haven't created a masterpiece either, but I am not sure I want to strive for that. All I know is that I need to use art as a form of communicating how I feel, and a need to create. Where my muse will take me I have no idea, but I am sure it will be interesting :) all the best to you, and thanks for letting me blither on (you did let me right ;) How timely this post is for me. I am going through some kind of a flux, can’t call it a block really, but somehow this year I just wanted to stop trying to be artist and just be. In a way it is a little scary as I love painting, but am not painting. I haven’t created a masterpiece either, but I am not sure I want to strive for that. All I know is that I need to use art as a form of communicating how I feel, and a need to create. Where my muse will take me I have no idea, but I am sure it will be interesting :)
all the best to you, and thanks for letting me blither on (you did let me right ;)

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