Visionary Creativity: How New Worlds Are Born by John Lobell

Author:John Lobell [Lobell, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Creatives, Creativity, Visionary Creativity, John Lobell, Creative People, Visionaries
Publisher: JXJ Publications
Published: 2015-05-24T18:30:00+00:00

Why do artists do what they do? Why, for example, does Francis Ford Coppola make his next movie? The question points at human motivation, and shows the inadequacies of the measures we usually use. Money? Coppola has as much money as he needs, and he now makes movies that might not make money. Fame? He has that. Posterity? Yes, there is a satisfaction to leaving a coherent body of work, but there is something else at work here. Joseph Campbell states, “People say that we’re all looking for meaning in our lives. I don’t think that is the case. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, the rapture of being alive.” Let’s look at a notion from the Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset regarding the energies of the cosmos that pour into us.

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