Creative Expression and Limit of Knowing

A creative expression has to be prefaced by many conscious intellectual activities such as knowing, pro-creative thinking, evaluation, etc. but for the actual process of expression, knowing has to be stopped assuming that enough has been known for affecting the expression. Conversely, keep on trying to know more and more puts hurdles in the process of creativity. 

Knowledge is infinite and shall never reach its ultimate state which proves that process of knowing must continue for ever and it is certainly a positive aspect of life. But the above argument proves that even the best of positive things of life have to be limited in serving many purposes of life. So, nothing remains positive under all circumstances.


A creative expression is a representation of what the creator knows, and its finality can be achieved only when the knowledge is accepted to be final, if not for ever at least for the time-being and for the particular purpose. 


Through knowing, knowledge is acquired and it is evaluated for serving the particular purpose of expression through another piece of knowledge stored in the memory. Thus, even an evaluation need finality of evaluating knowledge. Here again, the process of knowing need be stopped or paused.


Although above logic is derived for creative expressions, limiting the knowing process is desirables in almost all performances. Conversely, all performances are based on knowledge assumed to be enough for the time-being. If the process of knowing continues, performance can not be affected. 


Creative expressions are finally the works of our subconscious minds, once they are provided enough of fuel in form of knowledge. In this work, the conscious mind has to be contented with what it knows and then come to a state of 'not knowing any more'. This may be put as going beyond the conscious mind to the depth of subconscious mind. 



The processes of knowing and thinking are governed by conscious mind and the output is fed to the sub-conscious mind. Then the conscious mind stops functioning and the sub-conscious mind takes over for a creative expression of what is in its store. Any interference of conscious mind may dictate that the process of knowing is still not complete and the creative expression may not be possible. Since, sub-conscious mind is not involved in the processes of knowing and thinking, it assumes that it knows everything and starts the creative expression.