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First Words: The Pleasure of Creativity

Why Create?

If you hear a voice within you say, “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

—Vincent van Gogh

Most of us can look at the artistic work of others and decide whether or not we like a particular piece. Why then, when we view an image of our own, are we frequently fraught with ambivalent feelings? I do not understand why we tend to be our own worst critics. Certainly there are enough people in the world who will find fault with anything that we do. We must learn not to assist them.

But why pursue anything creative if we are doomed to torture ourselves about what we did and approach being creative as if there is some cosmic scorekeeper that decides if we are ...