G. Steve Journal

Reflections on photography, art, beauty and the natural landscape.

Innate Drive

Time and again we learn of artists confessing an inability to ignore the internal and insistent creative impulse driving their artistic expression. Carl Jung aptly describes this phenomenon:

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends,

but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.

 

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