Since Age Seven, I've Been Composing And

The Best Way To Investigate The Elusive Phenomenon Called The Creative Process May Well Be To Target All The Misconceptions, To Explain What The Creative Process Is Not.

In The Nineteenth Century The More Grandiose Word Inspiration Began To Replace The Word Idea In The Arts.

There Is Another Interesting Paradox Here: By Immersing Ourselves In What We Love, We Find Ourselves. We Do Not Lose Ourselves. One Does Not Lose One's Identity By Falling In Love.

That Is Why The Analogy Of Stealing Does Not Work. With A Thief, We Want To Know How Much Money He Or She Stole, And From Whom? With The Artist It Is Not How Much He Or She Took From Whom, But What The Artist Did With It.

The Creative Act Is Like Writing A Letter. A Letter Is A Project; You Don't Sit Down To Write A Letter Unless You Know What You Want To Say And To Whom You Want To Say It.