How to Create Dangerously: Learn from Past Mavericks
Make history’s greatest rebels your role models.
“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of ‘revolutionary’ and it is they alone who are masters.” — Paul Gauguin
The past exists for a reason, and I think that reason is to give some clues on how to hammer out the future.
And if you’re an ambitious artist who’s cursed with the hunger to disrupt with some unruly genius and originality that frightens, it behooves you to incorporate into your creative process the lessons from those past pioneers of imagination, and see what kind of future you can build on their eternal wisdom.
Why Learning from Past Mavericks is Dangerous
Too many modern artists and creators today have a limited understanding of the heretics, rebels, and wild bastards of the past who paved the way for them to create freely in the present (Billie Eilish not knowing who Van Halen is is a prime example of the historical ignorance that typifies contemporary artists).
However, people who want to create for a living are committing aesthetic suicide by…
