It is necessary to make an imaginative effort which runs contrary to the whole contemporary trend of the art world: it is necessary to see works of art freed from all the mystique which is attached to them as property objects. It then becomes possible to see them as testimony to the process of their own making instead of as products; to see them in terms of action instead of finished achievement. The question: what went into the making of this? supersedes the collector’s question of: what is this?

[We should] refrain from reading such notions as “fictive”, “fabricated”, and “untrue to life” into the word “novelistic”. Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.

They are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual’s life. Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

It is wrong then to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences…but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.

| Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

You see a [painting] you like because you admire the spirit of it, and you say to yourself, yes, that is a fine invention. Then later, perhaps even years later, you find yourself watching a person, a scene, an object, which might have been the origin of the painting you admired, and suddenly you realize that it wasn’t invention at all but truth that the work was based on. And this realization is always, for me anyway, very moving. Because it emphasizes all the originality, courage, effort that lay behind the presenting of that truth which looked like an invention. It is like listening to a story-teller because he tells good stories and then suddenly realizing that he is talking about his own life, about himself in the third person.

II. DEFINITION
Humans are so hell-bent on assigning linear definition to everything that the opposite of definition has somehow resulted in confusion.

While language and prior successful styles of work have helped us make sense of the world, it should be the creative person’s mission to un-define and redefine those methods of thinking by drawing new connections and expound what we come to know as “good.”

Do this by telling the truth. The more we try to re-tell the stories of our successors, the further we get away from what makes us unique individuals.

There are 7.9 billion of us which means that if it speaks to you, it will likely speak to somebody else.