The Art of Slowing Down
<p>Is creativity a fast or slow process? According to the idiom, ideas <em>strike</em>, just like lightning. And when I think of some of the great artists from history and today, it seems that speed is sometimes essential.</p>
<p>When Jackson Pollock prowled around his canvas, dripping paint from a pot, he did so in a spirit of headlong spontaneity. It couldn’t have been possible otherwise. If paint is going to be sloshed, flicked and splattered, it has to be done with an assertive, insistent hand.</p>
<p>Likewise, when Jack Kerouac typed furiously on a single, unbroken ream of paper 120-feet long, the resulting <em>On the Road</em> was a stream-of-consciousness eruption.</p>
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