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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Creative Nourish or Nurture.

Nourish is more basic--filling a basic need. Nurture comes after that: building up, warming, and polishing.

To nourish the creative spirit, one must commit to hunting and gathering what the creative spirit needs. It may begin with some of the basic books, such as Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. It's about essentials--overall impressions of various art forms. Museums and play can help, but even books of paintings and film versions of shows can be enough too.The need for nourishment never ends, but when the spirit is hovering near full, nurturing is more likely to be effective.

Nurturing may involve diving into one art form. Nurturing takes the dreams of the creative spirit seriously. Friends and family may do this with just a little praise. Once it feels safe enough, the creative spirit may handle criticism well enough. But the encouragement has to come from somewhere--family, friends, teachers, fellow artists, even books on creativity.

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