The Creative Process
The text explores the artist's role in society, emphasizing the necessity of confronting aloneness, truth, and societal changes to create a more humane world while reflecting on the complexities of identity and history.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― James Baldwin
The creative process utilizes whatever materials we have at our disposal to keep our hands busy so that challenging ideas and emotions have a chance to burn, churn, and turn into something else — clarity, new conceptions, or compassionate action.
There, in that essay, Baldwin said, “A man is not a man until he’s able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from that of others.”
One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.” As he said, in a world where we are pushed to “regard our personal qualities and the result of our efforts as commodities that can be sold for money, prestige, and power,” engaging in a creative endeavor allows us to find value in the act itself.
