In the eyes of many people, some classic contents of artistic and cultural works are created by those geniuses and masters with a flash of inspiration.
In fact, there are such simple things. In terms of creation, it is difficult to pursue innovation and create amazing masterpieces.
It takes a lot of things to create, that is, to be as productive as possible, to create influential, creative work. And those successful ideas, in terms of numbers, and the total number of ideas, are linear.
In other words, the more people who work and the more ideas they have, the easier it is to innovate and succeed.
Although among these works, many of them are ordinary. This is like gold in the sand, after the public continues to screen, in order to have classic works, appear.
For example, many people are familiar with Shakespeare's works, but they are only those famous plays. Few people know that Shakespeare actually created dozens of works in the course of decades. Of course, those could be ordinary works.
Picasso, there are many works that are classics. But these works are only a small part of his tens of thousands of works. Even a genius, without this quantitative accumulation and tempering, is difficult to achieve such an achievement.
There are also many music masters, such as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc., whose respective musical classics are only a small part of their overall music creation. More works, probably all ordinary, have a mediocre response.
But this did not affect the status of these musical masters in the slightest.
Many people believe that if you want to do a good job, you must do a good job, and quality and quantity cannot coexist. There is some truth to this, but it may not be very applicable to innovation.
On the contrary, those who are prolific are more innovative, and those classics that will be passed down through the ages are also created in their most prolific stages.
For example, studies have shown that the more pieces a composer creates in any five-year period, the higher the chances of them creating a masterpiece. Other art forms have similar laws.
As most ordinary people, how can we make our creations look up to those masters?
There is a saying that perhaps many people's initial ideas are very ordinary and traditional. But constantly put forward new ideas, to practice, to create, in the process, gradually exclude and delete those even ignored conventional things, so as to produce some novelty, it is possible to create their own masterpieces.
In fact, in the process of pursuing prolificity, he has experimented with the effects of his own works many times, so that his works are becoming more and more mature and perfect. Although there are more works in it, it can be very ordinary, even garbage!
Just like today's online writers, it is difficult to write explosive works without millions of words of complete writing, without tens of thousands of words and years of writing and tempering.
There are geniuses, but very few. Even geniuses can't go far if they don't work hard and don't create much.
Therefore, for those who are interested in creating, the pursuit of prolific is very necessary.
Thanks for your attention, hope it helps you!