Finding the Artist in Yourself
Occasionally, people ask me what it’s like being a creative person. The question is often accompanied by a look of bewilderment. The people often say, with a sense of sadness, that they wish they were creative. “I don’t have a creative bone in my body,” some have said. My thought is always that the person is probably wrong: that everyone is creative. Without creativity, you couldn’t decide where to live, what to do with your weekends, or what to wear in the morning. The trick is asking yourself different questions: what would I like to see on that blank canvas? What thought would I like to put down on that piece of paper? What notes would I like to whistle or hum? The liberating fact is that there are no right or wrong answers to these questions: only possibilities. It’s not that these folks aren’t creative. It’s that they aren’t creating – at least not artwork. And that, my friends, can be cured . . . with one stroke of the pen.
