David Lynch on Creativity

Mark Elliot Cullen

This seemed related. Christopher B. Ricks:

And then there is the age-old difficulty and problem of intention. Briefly: I believe that an artist is someone more than usually blessed with a cooperative unconscious or subconscious, more than usually able to effect things with the help of instincts and intuitions of which he or she is not necessarily conscious. Like the great athlete, the great artist is at once highly trained and deeply instinctual. So if I am asked whether I believe that [Artist Name Ommitted†] is conscious of all the subtle effects of wording and timing that I suggest, I am perfectly happy to say that he probably isn’t. And if I am right, then in this he is not less the artist but more.

• †-For fear of repetitiveness bordering on obsession.

Jun 17, 2008 @ 7:02 PM