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The Great Acting Blog: “A Strange And Provocative Manifesto On Creativity”

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

“Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.” – Albert Camus
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” – William Blake

 

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