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You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

Joseph Campbell
Creativity, Fixed, Behinds
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.194, Anchor

The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

Joseph Campbell
Creativity, People, Alive
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

Joseph Campbell
Creativity, Artist, Technique

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