Why I Love Being Creative (2024)

Creativity lets you see who you are, what you’re interested in, the values and standards you set, and how you want people to get to know you. Being creative you can show what life means for you.

At least, for me. I mean, when I play the violin, the music goes right through my soul, my veins. They are thrilled when I am playing or even listening to music. There is so much joy to it. My thoughts go onto the paper through writing, the words flowing after each other. My vision goes onto the painting canvas. One stripe after another or just the little details.

Heart and soul

When I do this, I pour my heart and soul into doing those creative projects. It helps me understand why I do things the way I do. It’s a reflection of who I am, or who I want to become. The longer I think about it, the more ideas I get to write or paint about.

When I play the violin, I look at how the music has written, who wrote it, why the composer wrote it and when it was written. Then I know how to play written music and what kind of emotions I can use to imagine the music. That’s how the music comes alive to the audience. You can imagine a tree while playing a certain passage. The great Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov once said during a master-class when there was a passage repeating higher and higher in Kreisler’s Tambourin Chinois: “Imagine you climb the Chinese Wall, and finally when you arrived, you suddenly fall off the wall.”

What happens to me as a person?

I truly have no idea, to be honest. But I’ll try to explain why I love to write, paint and play the violin.

First of all, as a child, I started to play the cello. After one year playing the cello, I replaced the cello with the violin. The cello was too big for me and didn’t fit with me as a person. I do believe that an instrument is like a character of a human being. A violin is smaller and fits me much better; physically and mentally. Plus, I like the sound of the violin much more than the sound of the cello. Although, last year I listened to a recording on the national radio…