Developing Talent

"Creativity is ultimately sexual."

Writer Eve Ensler has commented that she believes “sexuality is the greatest gift we’ve been given. Its energy is the basis of creativity, love, ambition, desire, life. Sexuality has gotten all these bad raps because it’s so powerful.” [Quote from book: Positive Energy]

Garry Trudeau, the creator of “Doonesbury,” recalls an incident from his teens that illustrates that power: “As I was walking out the building one day on my lunch break, two-thirds of a block away this spectacularly beautiful young woman in a very short miniskirt was walking toward me…

“She was in her early twenties. I was 16 and looked all of 12. You could feel it in the air, her coming at you. Her presence was destabilizing the street for a one-block radius. Guys were gawking, cars were slowing. This woman was a menace.

“She was walking in a confident way, with a swing to her hips. I was geeky and shy, too shy to make eye contact. I wouldn’t even have known what to DO with eye contact. My discomfort must have been obvious because, as she passes me, she leans over, her breath is warm, and she softly… growls in my ear.

“I thought to myself: I’ve just been handed the most extraordinary gift. She showed such wisdom, with such a generous use of power. She just changed the life of a young boy. I thought, Anything is possible.”

[Washington Post Magazine, Oct 22 2006]

In her article Creative Juice, Suzanne Falter-Barns quotes Deepak Chopra “Creativity is ultimately sexual - I’m sorry - but it is!”

Falter-Barns adds, “I couldn’t agree more. I’d always had this sense that self-expression, passion and the stirrings of your soul were intertwined.”

Painter Cecily Brown described her work: “I’m reluctant to say I want to capture the sensation of sex, but in a way, I want to transcribe the feeling of heat inside your body, inside your mouth, the feeling of skin on skin, and flesh and graspings. The subject is perfect for painting; painting is a metaphor for sex. So I want it caressing; I want it brutal and tender and everything at once.” [contemporaryfinearts.de profile] [book: Cecily Brown by Danilo Eccher]