Fred Babb, If you get out of the way the art will make itself . Fred Babb, Art - Break the Rules . A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome.
Creativity takes courage.
You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training. Anna Freud, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense , 1946. The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. Erich Fromm, Creativity and Its Cultivation , 1959.