creativity

how can i destratify my mental processes and become more creative, eccentric, and emotional. i am an artist but i struggle to create art because i dont know what to express in my art or how to express it. my mind just goes blank. i feel like everything to do has already been done and i have no real reason to make music. i want to be the eccentric, artistic type of mentally ill instead of the retarded, boring, neurotic type of mentally ill. i apologize if i've posted this here before i forget.

step 1 is find reasons to be mentally ill so they can break you step 2 is avoiding noise so you're alone with your thoughts, that's the only way anyone can be creative if you're social and too dumb to see everything wrong with the world then give up, you either spend decades in solitude haunted and mocked by your own demons all to probably (99%) die homeless and hungry because your soykaf doesn't sell or you don't

practise as with anything else. play, draw, etc how you like. mega protip that is especially important for musicians that try too hard to be special:don't be afraid of studying theory, it won't make your art less unique.

>>7277 i am mentally ill but it doesn't fuel my art or make me interesting it just makes me neurotic >>7278 i practice as much as i can and im studying theory

>>7279 first of:stop romanticising mental illness, regardless of whether or not you have one, because it won't automatically make you an artist. i believe one reason why mental illness is sometimes associated with artistry is because arts are the tools many mentally ill people have taken to express their problems and that's all that it is, a method to express yourself regardless of how you are as a person. reading what you've said it sounds like your biggest problems are that you're trying to be unique for the sake of being unique and you're trying too hard to conform to that image instead of your own thoughts and likings, that way you can never express yourself and what makes you and your experiences distinct from others. and that you don't reflect fully on your art if you excuse yourself as simply being non-artistic instead of further refining it.

>>7276 Take ayahuasca until you develop schizophrenia