Stay Connected With All You Are to be More Creative

“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art” — Konstantin Stanislavski

What is inspiration about? Where do we find or stumble across creative ideas, and the motivation to do something with them?

For actors and other artists, those levels of inspiration can be wide-ranging, as O’Keefe notes, but one of the most meaningful areas for creating a character is your inner life, as actor Cynthia Erivo notes:

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Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz helps creative people in TV/Film, performing and fine arts.

In one of her articles, she emphasizes inner life connection:

“Creativity requires you to stay present and connected with all that you are — your talents, skills, and vision, as well as your feelings, thoughts, and inspiration.

“Your most private experiences and aspects of your internal life all come together and, one creative moment at a time, they become your art.”

She notes there are “moments of creative bliss,” when you “merge with your art.”

But there are also “moments of the creative mess. You feel like you don’t know what to do or how to do it. Everything feels like an experiment and you keep making mistakes and repeatedly trying something new.”

These “messy creative moments” can be very challenging, she says, but “you can eventually find your way back to creative bliss.”

She emphasizes the critical value of awareness and staying connected:

“To get through the challenging moments that are part of any artistic career, you need to know how to stay present and connected throughout the whole process of making art or preparing for a performance.

“You need to be present in the face of all the wonderful creative experiences and you need to stay connected even in moments of frustration and confusion.”

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Continued with quotes by actors Anthony Hopkins, Carla Gugino, Jungian Psychotherapist David Richo and others — See post on The Creative Mind Newsletter site:

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