The Creative Impulse

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Picasso at Golfe Juan near Vallauris by Gjon Mili for Life Magazine
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“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist
once he grows up.”

- Pablo Picasso

Each year at Halloween we celebrate the anniversary of our launch of The Artist’s Road with a blog about our main stock-in-trade: creativity. In our first message to you we said “More artists in the world is a good thing”, and we hope that our efforts on the site have helped to make that dream come true. We try to inspire and encourage others to either stay on their creative path, or to have the belief that they, too, can own a creative life. It isn’t easy sometimes to stick with it in the face of life’s demands, but it is the most fulfilling kind of living we know.

We think a lot about human cre…