Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
Interpretation
Creation arises from unexpected needs and circumstances.
This quote by Pierre Boulez highlights the idea that true creation emerges from unforeseen situations that demand a response. It suggests that innovation and artistic expression often stem from the necessity to address or adapt to unexpected challenges, leading to new forms of creativity that might not have existed otherwise.
In practice
A speaker at an art symposium might use this quote to emphasize how creativity often arises from challenges.
Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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