Author: Lyne Marshall
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Motivation: The Sixth Quality of Creativity
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Remaining motivated can be a hard call at times. Creative people can be like boats, tossed about in the storms of life, as they sail for peaceful and fruitful shores. Their craft may have an excess of anchors, which dig into the sand and hold them back, so it is…
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The Fifth Quality of Creativity: Curiosity
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Have you ever wondered why humanity is so questioning? What an amazingly curious mind the artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci had to make the discoveries that kept his name in the spotlight 500 years after his death. The world would not have the technology to reach others over the internet without…
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The Fourth Quality of Creativity: Passion
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Music inspires me. It makes me want to go to the studio and paint. As a child I used to sing Cole Porter’s song ‘ give me land, lots of land under starry skies above, don’t fence me in ‘ I felt then it was one of God’s greatest gifts to be free, and to express…
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The Third Quality of Creativity: Commitment
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What is talent and passion without commitment. Having a passion for anything requires some soul searching. For what purpose? Why this? Making a commitment means finding the answers to all the questions that constantly arise, to constantly fill the mind with what you want to do. It involves learning something new every day,…
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Practice, Practice, Practice…
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The second quality of creativity is the ability to keep working hard. Having said that I find my philosophy to focus on the art studio waning a bit of late due to writing commitments and the need to recovery from surgery. All artists, writers, musicians etc face the effects of life getting in the…