Creativity and the Blues

Eric Maisel is interviewed about his book The Van Gogh Blues. He says this:

For more than 25 years I’ve been looking at the realities of the creative life and the make-up of the creative person in books like Fearless Creating, Creativity for Life, Coaching the Artist Within, and lots of others. A certain theme or idea began to emerge: that creative people are people who stand in relation to life in a certain way - they see themselves as active meaning-makers rather than as passive folks with no stake in the world and no inner potential to realize. This orientation makes meaning a certain kind of problem for them - if, in their own estimation, they aren’t making sufficient meaning, they get down. I began to see that this “simple” dynamic helped explain why so many creative people - I would say all of us at one time or another time - get the blues.

This is interesting, especially about the “making meaning” part.

It seems to me, though, the older I get, the “meaning” is not something that can be “made.” I don’t know, though.