CREATIVITY 101

1-Collect situations you experience or witness, to use and express later, in your art.  2-Find your own visual language.   3-Reach into your subconscious, for an image whose full meaning remains partly veiled.   4-Show a new perception of reality.   5-There can be no art without a problem to solve. Search for the problems in your life, and your world.    6-Remain interested in what goes on in the world.   7-Learn to be a great appreciator of this world. Take in, delight, in the many small foibles of this world. Notice and write down the odd stuff you notice around you.    8-Be a biographer of the heart.     9-Be an interpreter of the loins. Express the situation of lust, as you witness it around you.   10-Dissect the aspects of the world, and the society we live in. Examine them through your own personal lens.     11-We carry our own unique, personal issues and obsessions wherever we go. Deal with these, through your artistic expression.       12-Deal with the traumatized soul, as themes.     13-Take risks; accept and work through the discomfort.    14-Explore the depths of the human soul.      15-Use external sources, external objects; see what kind of creative can be extracted from them.     15-Try an honest approach, with no predetermined outcome.          16-Creativity is like a muscle; the more you use it, it stronger it becomes.     17-In choosing creative material, use "whatever is there". Use whatever works; use anything around you to jot down, to be potential creative material, later.