The creative process is alchemical, primitive and magical at first - because you don't quite know what you're doing - then, gradually, it becomes more and more scientific, as you come to identify causes and effects, the formula behind the process. Once you understand the whole chain of events back to front, it appears to be entirely prosaic - and then you have the urge to move on, to seek more illusion. You find a sense of danger, of taking risks, to be crucial to your own sense of artistic adventure. You find your delight in the open spaces which beckon in the almost-safe, almost-dangerous region between care and recklessness. Too much of the former, and the artistic outcome is bland and predictable, and you are also jostled by a million uninteresting people; too much of the latter and you risk losing your bearings and even your sanity of course.