The Path of Least Resistance for Artists: The Structure and Spirit of the Creative Process

We allow our goals to erode when we are unwilling to live with emotional tension. On the other hand, when we understand creative tension and allow it to operate by not lowering our vision, vision becomes an active force. Robert Fritz says, “It’s not what the vision is, it’s what the vision does.” Truly creative people use the gap between vision and

Real creativity comes from finding your medium, from being in your element. When people find their medium, they discover their real creative strengths and come into their own. Genuine creativity is not only a matter of letting go but of holding on.

game itself. If you are making a work of art in any area of life, you are not going from a known point A to a known point B. You are inventing point B.

An unusual degree of courage is demanded of those whose desire and ability to create are limited by physical debility. But courage and creativity are linked, for all serious creation requires intellectual courage. It is frightening to enter your workroom early in the morning and face an empty canvas, a blank sheet of paper, or a score sheet, knowin