All right, a talented author allows his creation to live according to its own laws. Now, let's recall that a piece of art is a message. Thus, the talent of a creator consists of allowing his creation to speak for itself. This illustrates and stresses another side of the real logic and psychology of the creative process.
The author relates a message when creating. That means the author is talking to somebody while creating. From the outside, it might seem like the author is talking to himself. But what is happening on the inside? The same thing that happens to all of us while we are thinking: we talk to someone else in our mind, in our inner speech. This can be one's father, or mother, or teacher, or friend, or loved one, or enemy, or a hero of a book, etc. Of course, those interlocutors may be more or less unrecognized, so we don't quite clearly realize who we are talking to, but this is on the matter of psychology and is not crucial for our subject (Normally, an adult is under the impression that he is talking to himself.) What is crucial for our subject is that an author is conversing with his potential audience and other authors.
Obviously, an artwork itself means nothing until somebody sees it, listens to it, etc. A work of art represents culture at the moment that it emerges as the subject of inner or outer dialogue. Remove dialogue and art becomes a piece of canvas, some ink, a tape, et cetera.
Interestingly, if we remove art -- and thus novelty -- from dialogue, it turns into banal, senseless, animal-like communication.
When do you talk? When you want to be heard, understood and responded to. You write (film, sing...) to be read (watched, listened to...), understood and responded to. And while outside a new creation invokes new understanding in other people, the same amazing thing happens inside, in the creator's inner dialogue: all of the author's inner interlocutors develop an understanding of the new creation. The author talks to his inner interlocutors about this new world. That actualy means he develops his own new understanding, his new alter ego, or more precisely, a new face of the alter ego with every single work.
Free human communication or dialogue is the most general mechanism in the development of the arts, and all creativity generally speaking.
Art is a dialogue (yet another definition). Its very fabric is produced at that very moment when a writer is writing (that is, he is talking in his mind), when a reader is reading (is talking in his mind to the author, friends, enemies, et cetera), when a person is thinking (is talking in his mind to his alter ego)... all of it can occur in the realm of ultimate freedom and only there. Let us always remember that.
Freedom of inner speech is one of the main conditions required to create and, at the same time, it is the motivation to create. It is another law of the nature of culture! Even if an author creates for some superficial reasons like money, fame, or fear of punishment, these affect him on the surface only. No outer reasons add talent to a work of art. Free inner speech (dialogue) does. Again, the freedom of the author's inner speech is crucial for the creative process. A creator is as talented as he is free.
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