creative tension

notes on creating
“Love is what creating is about.” So wrote Robert Fritz as he describes the creative process in his book “Creating.” Ascribing love as a generative force, Fritz invites his readers to not only recognize the process of creating as a tool, but to step into a lifestyle of creating and so experience life at its essence. According to Fritz, the act of creating builds energy, which in turn builds momentum, which in turn renews energy, which continues an energetic flow that is renewable. Fritz separates the creative process into nine consecutive elements: Conception – one begins to consider what to create and experiments with ideas;

the truly creative mind
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must creat