Very interesting, and you have summarised well the different possible motives of creative people. Creativity can be channelled in many ways, and not necessarily in the arts – for example ‘creative accounting’, which sometimes means dubious, or worse. I was pleased that you describe me as a photographer, but I am just somebody who takes photos, on holiday and elsewhere. I consider myself less creative than our other friends who were mentioned in the podcast. I am certainly not a creative, which is a horrible new word. I am not even sure whether it is grammatically correct. I must ask Derek the Poet (like George the Poet, I do not have to use his surname).
Thanks for this Ant, a very precise summary of our uni friends’ creative discussions. I am very struck by your final image of the painter struggling to let go of the painting that you and your partners have bought from her. With a poem, of course, one lets it go gladly, because one still has it – the letting go adds rather than subtracts. I am rather old fashioned when it comes to art and audiences: I hope that my particular experience, as set out in poetic form, will resonate in some universal way. I’m with Alexander Pope when he says “True wit is nature to advantage dressed;/What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.”
Very interesting, and you have summarised well the different possible motives of creative people. Creativity can be channelled in many ways, and not necessarily in the arts – for example ‘creative accounting’, which sometimes means dubious, or worse. I was pleased that you describe me as a photographer, but I am just somebody who takes photos, on holiday and elsewhere. I consider myself less creative than our other friends who were mentioned in the podcast. I am certainly not a creative, which is a horrible new word. I am not even sure whether it is grammatically correct. I must ask Derek the Poet (like George the Poet, I do not have to use his surname).
Thanks for this Ant, a very precise summary of our uni friends’ creative discussions. I am very struck by your final image of the painter struggling to let go of the painting that you and your partners have bought from her. With a poem, of course, one lets it go gladly, because one still has it – the letting go adds rather than subtracts. I am rather old fashioned when it comes to art and audiences: I hope that my particular experience, as set out in poetic form, will resonate in some universal way. I’m with Alexander Pope when he says “True wit is nature to advantage dressed;/What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.”