I am an artist. I make art. In my art I share my inner life with anyone willing to engage with it.
No, this is not more procrastination, quite the opposite in fact. I am being proactive and doing a homework assignment for art history class.
In On Becoming a Person (1961, chapter 19, Toward a Theory of Creativity), Carl Rogers writes:
(...) "My definition then, of the creative process is that it is the emergence in action of a novel relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual on the one hand, and the materials, events, people or circumstances of his life on the other" (page 350, ― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“Somewhere here I want to bring in a learning which has been most
rewarding, because it makes me feel so deeply akin to others. I can word
it this way. What is most personal is most general. There have been
times when in talking with students or staff, or in my writing, I have
expressed myself in ways so personal that I have felt I was expressing
an attitude which it was probable no one else could understand, because
it was so uniquely my own…. In these instances I have almost invariably
found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most
personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to
be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people. It
has led me to believe that what is most personal and unique in each one
of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or
expressed, speak most deeply to others. This has helped me to understand
artists and poets as people who have dared to express the unique in
themselves.”
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Carl R. Rogers,
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
and later: “(...) is the ability to play spontaneously with ideas, colours, shapes, relationships – to juggle elements into impossible juxtapositions, to shape wild hypotheses, to make the given problematic, to express the ridiculous, to translate from one form to another, to transform into improbable equivalents. It is from this spontaneous toying and exploration that there arises the hunch, the creative seeing from life in a new and significant way. It is as though out of the wasteful spawning of thousands of possibilities there emerge one or two evolutionary forms with the qualities which give them a more permanent value” (page 354-355, item C., ― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy)
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Chapter 19 of On Becoming a Person (1961) by Carl Rogers: Toward a Theory of Creativity











