Summary of the War of Art by Instaread

Author:. Instaread [Instaread]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: iDreamBooks Inc
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Key Takeaway 6

The universe supports creativity, and will help the artist succeed if the artist puts in the work.

Analysis

There is a spiritual force that supports creation and creators. This can be thought of as a natural phenomenon, or as God, or as angels. In any case, when a creator begins to work, there are invisible powers that support and sustain him or her. The Greeks personified these powers as the nine Muses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, each of whom was responsible for a different art.

Comics creator Alan Moore, who wrote Watchmen and V for Vendetta, has argued that creativity and spirituality are closely linked. Moore himself is a practicing magician, and has taken as his personal deity and muse an ancient Roman snake-God called Glycon. Moore has argued that imagination, creativity, spirituality, and even science are all linked in a single whole. Moore points to scientist Albert Einstein, who created his theory of relativity after experiencing a kind of inspired vision, in which he saw himself flying along beside a beam of light. Similarly, James Watson, who co-discovered DNA, figured out its spiral structure after dreaming of a staircase. [12]

As Moore has said, “Art, language, consciousness and magic are all aspects of the same phenomenon.” In other words, magic and art fit together. The language of the world is creativity, and the practice of art is itself a spiritual endeavor. For Moore, the muses are as real, or more real, than the words they inspire. “Magic,” he says, “in our formulation, seems intimately involved with creativity and with creation, in whatever sense we mean those terms.” [13] Thus, making art means interacting with and being supported by powerful universal forces.

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