Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.
Interpretation
Creativity stems from inner feelings rather than external pressures to produce.
Max Richter highlights the struggle that young artists often face in feeling pressured to create constantly. He suggests that true creativity comes from a deep personal connection to one's feelings and experiences, rather than from conforming to external expectations or demands, which can hinder artistic development and expression.
In practice
This quote can be used during a workshop for young artists to inspire them to trust their creative process.
I'm suspicious of the idea of categories in music and this idea of things being in boxes. To me, that seems unnatural. I write the music that somebody with my biography would write, and the thing that's always driven me is an enthusiasm for the material. I sort of follow the notes to where they want to go.
All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.
The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach for when I want to convey something.
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I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
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