Stepping Off Now: Lessons in the Art and Craft of Creativity

E164. Is the Ability to Make Choices More Important to Art than Creativity?


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Beyond passion, skill, and commitment, there is another quality that defines what it is to be an artist: the ability to make choices in your art and follow through on them. In this episode I contemplate how being stuck in art (and life) is often more the result of a fear of making wrong choices than a lack of inspiration. It can help to shift our mindset to see artistic choices as neutral, and to understand that we have the power to make a choice a good one by continuing to work with it until it has borne fruit.

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Stepping Off Now: Lessons in the Art and Craft of CreativityBy Kendra Patterson

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