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This quote struck me as true. Eckhart Tolle understands artists. This particular understanding of creativity is reflected in my tagline, “Savor the colors of the moment™".
When I’m in a state of creative flow, it’s true, I have no mind, I’m not thinking. So when someone asks “What were you thinking when you painted that painting?” I often have to fish around for something to say. Because really, I wasn’t thinking much.
Something, some quality, simply caught my attention initially. After that, if the creative process is flowing, I’m not thinking. I’m feeling and letting go.
It can be a challenge to say much at all about a painting or even come up with the title. The titles to my paintings are really not all that poetic.
Describing a painting is such a literal exercise imposed upon an inexplicable creative expression. But people appreciate knowing the story and my motivation behind a painting that they are interested in. That said, I often don’t say much.
With “no-mind” comes an inner stillness. It’s the lessened mental chatter one experiences with practiced meditation. It’s no wonder that art is used as therapy. After I’ve completed a painting I often feel that I’ve hit the reset button on my thinking. And physically I’m more relaxed.
Eckhart Tolle, famed author of “The Power of Now”, has it right.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. - Eckhart Tolle
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This quote struck me as true. Eckhart Tolle understands artists. This particular understanding of creativity is reflected in my tagline, “Savor the colors of the moment™".
When I’m in a state of creative flow, it’s true, I have no mind, I’m not thinking. So when someone asks “What were you thinking when you painted that painting?” I often have to fish around for something to say. Because really, I wasn’t thinking much.
Something, some quality, simply caught my attention initially. After that, if the creative process is flowing, I’m not thinking. I’m feeling and letting go.
It can be a challenge to say much at all about a painting or even come up with the title. The titles to my paintings are really not all that poetic.
Describing a painting is such a literal exercise imposed upon an inexplicable creative expression. But people appreciate knowing the story and my motivation behind a painting that they are interested in. That said, I often don’t say much.
With “no-mind” comes an inner stillness. It’s the lessened mental chatter one experiences with practiced meditation. It’s no wonder that art is used as therapy. After I’ve completed a painting I often feel that I’ve hit the reset button on my thinking. And physically I’m more relaxed.
Eckhart Tolle, famed author of “The Power of Now”, has it right.
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This quote struck me as true. Eckhart Tolle understands artists. This particular understanding of creativity is reflected in my tagline, “Savor the colors of the moment™".
When I’m in a state of creative flow, it’s true, I have no mind, I’m not thinking. So when someone asks “What were you thinking when you painted that painting?” I often have to fish around for something to say. Because really, I wasn’t thinking much.
Something, some quality, simply caught my attention initially. After that, if the creative process is flowing, I’m not thinking. I’m feeling and letting go.
It can be a challenge to say much at all about a painting or even come up with the title. The titles to my paintings are really not all that poetic.
Describing a painting is such a literal exercise imposed upon an inexplicable creative expression. But people appreciate knowing the story and my motivation behind a painting that they are interested in. That said, I often don’t say much.
With “no-mind” comes an inner stillness. It’s the lessened mental chatter one experiences with practiced meditation. It’s no wonder that art is used as therapy. After I’ve completed a painting I often feel that I’ve hit the reset button on my thinking. And physically I’m more relaxed.
Eckhart Tolle, famed author of “The Power of Now”, has it right.
