When you resist the urge to create whatever idea possesses your mind – no matter how small or silly – you are (1) preventing your own evolution and (2) starving your work’s destined audience of what they need (in turn) to create and evolve, and so their audience, and so on…

To be moved by an idea that captured you and to suppress the inner impulse to express it in any messy form you can (through writing, painting etc) is to deny others the movement you experienced. It is to go against the natural order of the universe.

The true cost of not acting on what inspires you is infinite in a negative direction. The true impact of acting on what inspires you is infinite in a positive direction.

Since true originality does not exist (originality is novel recombination), the only true originality is audience perception. Art is imitation, not spontaneous creation.

Resisting and not creating is giving in to self-doubt and feeds the judging mind which manifests more self-doubt and a louder judging mind.

Overcoming resistance and creating is self-sustaining and feeds the open mind, expanding the mind.

That you act on your inspiration is urgent.

But do not make things with the audience in mind. You have to make things for yourself, and then if what you made is authentic to you, it will most likely be authentic to the audience. Otherwise you make things that don’t move anyone.