On plans and routine as an Artist

It is in empty moments, that the bursting intensity of life awaits the human. Life and creativity are inseparable. A drop of water is put on the ground, and life creates rain filled clouds. A drop of water hits the grass, and life creates a tree, the tree creates an apple. The seed of the apple creates more apples. So for an artist to plan out his day is to miss the witnessing of life's creations. In these moments of passive observation, all inspiration waits for him. An artist, who is too busy to do nothing, is missing out on the greatest inspiration life has to offer.

One might argue that a routine is important if he is to produce with any semblance of consistency. To them, I say, a routine is helpful, but a fixed, definite routine, is blinding, suffocating. One can decide he will sit on a chair and paint every day, but to fix his hours of painting, is to bring himself into time. Time is always linear, it will only ever exist in two modes, front and back, present and past. So a routine mustn't pay any heed to time. Space, on the other hand, is all encompassing. It is universal, because it is not linear, and completely undying, unlike time. So one may decide to go to a cafe and write, and that would be a positive routine, because it exists in space, and pays no attention to time. After all, what one seeks to bring into life, is the essence of the timeless. All great artworks have only been great because they have successfully translated the timeless into a form. That is their strength, that is their beauty.

So I say to the artist of the Now, pay no attention to a timed routine, but create furiously. And in between your moments of intense living, sit silently and observe nature and its endless creations. Then you will have all the ammunition, you will never feel parched because you will drink from an endless spring of crystal blue truth.