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| March 2003 CREATIVE Creative is one of those words most often associated with artists, performers and musicians and yet in reality being creative has never been limited to a particular group or productivity. |
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| Truman Capote said this about creativity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| “I’ve never understood the term ‘creative person.’ All people are creative. The difficulty is that most of us are unaware of our creative gifts; through faults of fortune, they lie undreamed of – to be discovered only, if at all, through fateful chance. For instance, as a child I knew a Gulf Coast fisherman who, direly afflicted with asthma, retired to a darkened herb-scented room. He learned to sew; gradually, he began producing scrap quilts of amazing design, a sunshine world of great primitive tapestries. The spirit hovers somewhere in all of us; many a shoe clerk and bus driver contain, however obscured and thwarted, a capacity for reaching exalted musical regions, for contriving delicate mathematical experiments. But, of course, the professionalized creative mind neither discovers nor makes art by accident, and therein lays the difference. Most artists know what they were born to do (and are prepared to do it) at a far earlier age than, say, the average future lawyer realizes his intentions. And most artists, particularly the precocious breed, have had difficult, isolated childhoods – no doubt partially because of the creative sensibility that sets them apart. In youth, what happens to the potential artist is rather like what happens to the pearl-bearing oyster. An alien sand grain invades the oyster’s shell and, once imbedded there, irritates the tenant to the point of obsession, painfully pesters the oyster until it produces a jewel. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind: a valued tormentor.” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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thing is certainly true. Being human means we have the power to create.
Being formed in the image of our Creator gives us unlimited opportunity
and great responsibility. I am more than blessed to have found my
path. I’ll see you along the way. |
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| Thanks for reading. I really appreciate it. – John Pototschnik | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
representational
show. The competition is always stiff. This year I chose to
submit a beach scene from the gulf shores near Pensacola, Florida.
I worked from small paintings I did on location. The show is
hosted by the Nichols Taos Fine Art Gallery in Taos, New Mexico
and will be on display during the month of May. You can check
the show on-line beginning in May at: Copyright © 2006 John Pototschnik. All rights reserved.