experience is incompressible

the accumulation of learning, an inevitable byproduct of the process of growing up, takes us not closer to but further away from our creative source

This viewpoint may be overly ambitious, and may even — horrors! -- be somewhat wrong, but I have observed that many good ideas start out by claiming too much territory for themselves, and eventually, when they have received their fair share of attention and respect, the air clears and it emerges that, though still grand, they are not quite so grand... See more