Originally Posted by
lclang
If you think you aren't artistic get a small child to help you. They don't have a lot of bias about color or pattern, but they sure know what they like and that is art.
LOVE this! There's such a profound truth there. Children play and create, unselfconsciously, while we "grown-ups" are so often inhibited by the messages we've absorbed about what we're good or not good at and what we "ought" to do, and many of us have learned to judge everything we do by external criteria instead of just enjoying ourselves in creativity for its own sake. Thankyou, Iclang - that's such a helpful and challenging comment.