Time and again we learn of artists who, in attempting to explain the creative process, can only suggest that it's mysterious … ineffable. The conventional wisdom is that, although inspiration can't be willed into existence, it does require the artist to consciously make a space for it to reveal itself.
Here's musician Robbie Robertson from the opening scene of the movie about The Band, "Once Were Brothers":
I don’t have much of a process of, like, thinking about this and now I’m going to write a song and it’s going to be about that…. A lot of times, the creative process is trying to catch yourself off-guard , and you sit down and you’ve got a blank canvas and you don’t know what you're going to do, and you just see what happens.
