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Point Zero: Creativity Without Limits
A guide to breaking through creative blocks to discover the emotional and spiritual rewards of spontaneous art.
In Life, Paint and Passion, creativity expert Michele Cassou showed readers how to discover the magic of intuitive expression. For many of us it is difficult just to let go and create something. Cassou shows us that once we engage in the artistic process it is quite possible to gain access to a powerful spiritual reserve within us. In Point Zero, Cassou takes the process further by providing an original method of inquiry that can be utilized in the face of doubt, conflict, and lack of inspiration. Through stories of her work with dozens of students, she shows the reader how to overcome creative difficulties of all kinds.
In the creative quest, Cassou teaches us, we must slay three The Dragon of Product fights the artist's spontaneity; the Dragon of Control bars the door to the unknown and the truly mysterious; and the Dragon of Meaning fights intuition and creativity by demanding interpretation and resolution with every move. Cassou arms us with a clear method for creating specific questions relevant to the situation of the moment, questions which are designed to dissolve barriers to creativity. She shows us how we can come face-to-face with the energy that creates our blocks, and then to use this encounter to return to Point Zero, the ground from which pure creation springs. In this place of infinite possibility, art becomes not a means to an end but a place which we may inhabit and in which we can explore our true selves and the mysteries of our lives.
In Life, Paint and Passion, creativity expert Michele Cassou showed readers how to discover the magic of intuitive expression. For many of us it is difficult just to let go and create something. Cassou shows us that once we engage in the artistic process it is quite possible to gain access to a powerful spiritual reserve within us. In Point Zero, Cassou takes the process further by providing an original method of inquiry that can be utilized in the face of doubt, conflict, and lack of inspiration. Through stories of her work with dozens of students, she shows the reader how to overcome creative difficulties of all kinds.
In the creative quest, Cassou teaches us, we must slay three The Dragon of Product fights the artist's spontaneity; the Dragon of Control bars the door to the unknown and the truly mysterious; and the Dragon of Meaning fights intuition and creativity by demanding interpretation and resolution with every move. Cassou arms us with a clear method for creating specific questions relevant to the situation of the moment, questions which are designed to dissolve barriers to creativity. She shows us how we can come face-to-face with the energy that creates our blocks, and then to use this encounter to return to Point Zero, the ground from which pure creation springs. In this place of infinite possibility, art becomes not a means to an end but a place which we may inhabit and in which we can explore our true selves and the mysteries of our lives.
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First published January 1, 1980
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December 25, 2009
She's amazing, gets right to the heart of what creativity is about. A wonderful new look at the process of using our intuition to make art that comes from ones' own essence. Would love to go to one of her workshops someday.
May 31, 2025
I loved this book. As a way too cerebral person, I found it very encouraging to question ourselves as we are allowing our intuition to rise up as we paint.
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September 25, 2012Many a mantra and all around good advice on how to get out of the way of creative inspiration.
February 5, 2008
was reading yesterday a bit good reference
shows you how to come from intuition and not mind
to know the difference
shows you how to come from intuition and not mind
to know the difference
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August 10, 2016je creativiteit "ontremmen," ook zéér nuttig voor schrijvers.
March 23, 2016
Great concepts to tap into intuitive creativity. Lots of insight to help me with the birth art processes I lead in my classes.
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