After setting up an efficient creative process, what the creative professional must do immediately is find a way to give vent to their spontaneous mental manifestations, or rather, he must find a way to transform them mechanically into something artistically acceptable, so that he avoids not only losing them, but getting lost in the confusion of a myriad of imprecise and disconnected ideas, the sight of which will more easily lead him to paralysis than to action.
Tag: literature
“Cosa odiosissima è il parlar molto di se”
It is true that, as Leopardi rightly noted, “cosa odiosissima è il parlar molto di se”. However, it cannot be denied that lyric poetry in the first person, in addition to the excellent rhyming possibilities provided by the verbs, achieves a degree of closeness between the lyrical self and the reader that is difficult to achieve in any other way. Whether or not there is identification between the two, there is something in this half-confessional tone that removes, at least apparently, some of the artificiality of the expression, making it more authentic, and therefore more powerful. Like Leopardi, it is good to avoid that unpleasant first person; like Leopardi, one must assume it for the sake of expression.
The Cult of Form Can Only Occur…
The cult of form can only occur in spirits whose artistic motivation is not strong enough, or not clear enough. In the first case, we do not really have an artist, and in the second, we have an artist who has not yet understood himself. More often than not, however, whether consciously or not, the cult of form is merely a mask put on to cover up an inner emptiness.
It Has Already Been Noted That Great Authors…
It has already been noted that great authors often emerge as reactions to major social crises, and that an aggressive environment is more stimulating than a quiet, controlled, harmless one that does not directly threaten the author and therefore only promotes inertia. All of this is correct; but it remains to be seen that, for the reaction to take place, there needs to be an education that makes it possible to see the scale of the crisis, in other words, the author needs to be very clear about the basic foundations of a civilization, something that requires him, above all, to distance himself from the one in which he lives so that he can use it as an element of comparison.