The beginning of adolescence seems to mark the abrupt end of artistic development in terms of drawing skills for many adults. As children, they confronted an artistic crisis, a conflict between their increasingly complex perceptions of the world around them and their current level of art skill.
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, “I’d like my crayons back, please.”
Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of creativity.
I have a gift for silence - to show with my body the weight of my soul.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Any great work of art…revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Kids aren’t taught how to create…so they can’t create a reality of their own, a culture of their own. They’re forced to buy whatever culture comes at them through television, etc. For example, do you know how to bake bread, of course not. So you buy it. Imagine if everyone forgot how to bake bread except the big bakeries, how much they could charge and the shitty bread they could get away with selling. No, the only thing we really know is how to file stuff. No wonder kids start expressing themselves with guns and bombs. Our schools are creating a generation of slaves instead of masters.
An interview from www.chuckpalahniuk.net