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The creative process is regulated by the artist's inborn sense of truth, our capacity
to know what is real; or what we sense and believe, intuitively or consciously, to be real.
Can an illusion be real, and can reality be an illusion? One of the difficulties of this sense, is that the more one knows,
the more one knows that what is true depends on the perspective from which one is perceiving reality.
Change the perspective, and the truth changes: Though we know that there are simple and profound truths that guide our lives,
and are the basis for what we believe life is.
Determination and love are the most important laws of creativity. Without them, no amount of talent,
imagination, intelligence, intuition or spontaneity, or ability to transform can develop to their fullest capacity.
Why do most people believe that one must suffer for one's art? Why does our education make us
think that will and discipline are only used for doing things we do not love, or want to do;
and why are we rarely capable of focusing will and determination towards doing the things we love, and dream of doing?
How does one learn to differentiate good pain and suffering, when you are learning to do what you want to,
from bad pain and suffering, when one's character and habits are resisting change, and the artist remains close-minded?
How does an artist develop the capacity to become involved, which is accompanied by fear, and the sensation
of become obsessed, and sometimes, possessed, by what he or she is creating: and how do we become uninvolved when we are finished working?
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