The Great Acting Blog: “A Strange And Provocative Manifesto On Creativity”
Placed alongside eachother, the following quotes on the nature of creativity and the artistic process, form a fascinating tapestry of insight. Creativity is a mysterious process, it is not intellectual and comes from a place we do not fully comprehend.
I offer the following patchwork of insights as a strange and provocative manifesto.
“Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious – about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.” – David Mamet
“I don’t know that I’m always right. It’s just that I think I’m right, and maybe I’m not right, and there are better ways to have done things, but I’m not coming up with them at the time. The possibilities that I come up with, the ones that feel right, speak to me strongly, and the other ones mumble. But again, it’s purely intuitive.” – Jim Jarmusch
“I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.” – Michelangelo Antonioni
“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.” – Robert Bresson
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