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The Meaning Code

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The Constraint of Creativity

After painting the same thing three or four times, you get kind of bored with just changing the colors. What if I did the whole thing with an underground texture that would change the way the paint moved on the canvas? So even her skin was blue? Or what if I did it with paint dripping down the canvas to represent the rhythm of the music? "I never was a creative person before, but it was these imposed constraints," he says. 'The universe acts like a work of art'

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