creative individuation

The role of art is to embody virtue

It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.

—life mantra

Ray Bradbury talks about the importance of not thinking when he is writing. He says that when he arrives at the typewriter, his task is to be living. To let his soul pour out onto the page. To quiet the mind and let his body do the talking. Then, he checks his work afterwards using the mind as a ‘corrective force’ to refine. But he uses the body to... See more

The person you become through creating is infinitely more valuable than whatever you actually create.