Creativity coach and therapist Eric Maisel, PhD is author of many books, including Coaching the Artist Within; A Life in the Arts; Fearless Creating; Ten Zen Seconds, and The Van Gogh Blues.
Most of us would be quick to say that we are free to think just about
anything and to express ourselves in any way we see fit.
In
reality, artists do a lot of measuring, somewhere just out of conscious
awareness, about what is safe or seemly to reveal and what is unsafe or
unseemly.