Chase, Chance, and Creativity by James H Austin

Author:James H Austin [Austin, James H]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-01-02T11:02:00+00:00

Storr disposes of the notion that creativity necessarily involves a substantial love for power, fame, or honor. To him, the desire for fame is but one part of an artist's motivation; the motive is linked with the success of the art itself and not with fame for its own sake.

An important aspect of motivations is revealed in questions of scientific priority: who discovered it first? Bystanders tend to view this kind of concern solely as a personality conflict between two or more fame-seeking persons as to which will emerge with the glory in the eyes of their contemporaries or in those of posterity. This can be so obvious that it is easy to overlook another consideration. The fact is that the inner-directed creative investigator (like the composer or the artist) also defines his territory in order to establish who he is, so that he himself will clearly know. The territorial imperative in animals is clear enough, and it obviously also exists in man. But creative man is far more complex. I would propose that one aspect of what has been viewed as the territorial imperative may, in creative man, be focused as much at his internal boundary as it is externally.

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