Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 84
In this show I talked about writing my novels. If you are interested you’ll find the books listed below. You’ll hear some of the stories around my stories, and I share thoughts about my creative process.
I love that Picasso and Cezanne offer such wonderful contrasts as creators; each wrote about their view of their process—letters to friends and other artists—so this isn’t an interpretation by others, but rather their specific claims.
Picasso was clear. He started when he already knew what he was going to execute and finish. In an interview with his friend and critic Marius de Zayas he said “When I paint my purpose is to show what I have found, not what I am looking for…”
He made hundreds of small sketches for Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon before he began this masterwork, fully understanding what he was going to paint on that massive canvas.
Cezanne was just as certain that he simply began, for a painting was a discovery, an experiment, a search. Emil Bernard, the painter and writer, lived with Cezanne for a month in Aix and after watching him carefully place each bit of paint he said Cezanne’s method of work was “…a meditation with a brush in his hand.”
Cezanne never believed his search, his emergent understanding of how to see Nature truly, was successful; most of his paintings aren’t signed because he didn’t think they were finished, there was still more for him to learn.
I’ve been fortunate to experience both processes. First, as an entrepreneur and marketer there were many times the idea for a campaign or new initiative came to me fully formed.
As a novelist I had a very general idea of where the story was headed, some sense of two or three key characters, but then just started, to discover what the story was that wanted to be told, and how.
My novels:
The 53rd Parallel and it’s sequel, Worlds Between
Anung’s Journey, based on Ojibway legends.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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