"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
The Dreamer
The Producer as Dreamer
Scientific study of the creative process has given rise to many questions and less answers. It involves a variet of different personality traits, behaviors, and thinking approaches that conflate to form the person.
Psychologists have found that creative people have a tendency to avoid habit and routine - they tend to swing between moments on deep introspection and prodigious output . We often feel misunderstood because we see the world differently from others—and indeed, neuroscience shows that our brains are literally wired differently.
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi concluded that a defining characteristic of highly creative people is complexity. “They contain contradictory extremes,” he said. “Instead of being an individual, each of them is a multitude.”
Edward Burn Jones
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Edward Burn Jones
A pupil of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a protégé of John Ruskin, Burne-Jones belonged to the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, creating a narrative style of romantic symbolism steeped in medieval legend and fused with the influence of Italian Renaissance masters that was to have widespread influence on both British and European art. Within the sophisticated culture of the late Victorian period Burne-Jones's star rose rapidly, and by the 1880s he had become the establishment artist par excellence, one of the most admired and sought-after painters in Europe. By the 1890s, however, Burne-Jones was ceding popularity to the growing taste for abstraction, and until recently he was all but ignored. Today, one hundred years after his death, in what John Christian, the leading authority on the artist, in this volume terms a "critical somersault," Burne-Jones is once again considered the greatest British painter of the nineteenth century—after only Turner and perhaps Constable.
