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Complete solitude and silence, a walk in nature, music, or even standing on your head? There are many ways to get into a thoughtful place and spike a person’s creative process. Creativity is a rare and precious commodity. Also, it\u2019s subjective, deeply personal, and sometimes difficult to capture consistently. But how could one activate that creativity and thought process within? Many artists have their unique ways of gaining inspiration. But what if by only using a fragrance, one can help the creative process flow? Find out more about these creative processes and how scent can influence this in A Smell Of Inspiration.<\/em> 
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If you\u2019re a creator or artist you have to have amazing innovative ideas all the time, so to have a continuous flow of creativity and inspiration, artists may well go to great lengths to help their thought process. Some may use the most uncommon ways to birth their visions, Especially a few of the most famous minds in the world.
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Carry-le-Rouet, Made by Salvador Dali (1930), Image made by Fleur Chattillon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of these creative minds is the painter, most famous for his surrealist paintings, Salvador Dal\u00ed. He had an exciting way of using his lack of sleep in order to spike his creative process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He would get himself sleep deprived and while sitting in a chair, Dal\u00ed would hold a metal key in his hand over a metal plate, and as soon as sleep began to overcome him, the key would slip from his fingers and clang noisily on the plate below, waking him from the brief moments he had barely lost consciousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This practice he used, took advantage of hypnagogia, the transitional state between when you\u2019re fully conscious and asleep. During this time, people can experience visual and auditory hallucinations. Which would help him with his surrealistic paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Three Dancers, Made by Pablo Picasso (1925), Image made by Fleur Chattillon <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Dal\u00ed was not the only painter that had this unusual technique to gain creative insight. Pablo Picasso, the Spanish painter, and sculptor and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, used singing for his inspiration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He would close his eyes and sing or hum to himself. This way he believed that ideas and creativity that already exist in his imagination and the charm of his inner world would be nourished in the lush gardens of his mind. He would visualize colours that would come to him based on the emotions that the singing would bring him.
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\u201c<\/em><\/strong>To draw you must close your eyes and sing\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another creative mind that was considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, famous for his book \u2018In Search of Lost Time\u2019, was French novelist Marcel Proust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He used complete solitude as a way to get his creative process flowing, which is a pretty common way that people use to gain creativity, but he practised this in an extreme way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine being in a space, blocked out by noise and the world completely, so quiet you could hear a pin drop, well Proust did that. He lived most of his life in a small room with encased walls of cork and blocked-out windows to keep out noise and be undistracted while writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although some of his habits of isolation may have been due to his poor health, it\u2019s also clear he used solitude to free his mind and focus on his work. He often slept during the day and worked at night, and once he became so absorbed in his writing that he didn\u2019t stop for three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technique used by Igor Stravinsky, a Russian composer most famous for his ballets, might need some practice before it could be used. In his book, written by himself, he admitted that he began each day with exercises taught to him by a Hungarian gymnast, and then he stood on his head. He did this to clear his brain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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