Why is my creative impulse never satisfied?

Why must I always begin anew?

The reason for the compulsion to renewed creativity, it seems to me,

is that each added work brings with it an element of self-discovery.

I must create in order to know myself, and self-knowledge is a never ending search.

Each new and significant work of art is a unique formulation of experience;

an experience that would be utterly lost if it were not captured and set down by the artist.

No other artist will ever make that particular formulation in exactly that way!

©Tomas Willstedt

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