Chapter 51 artist and criminal

Some people say that the culprits are Beethoven without a piano, and Picasso without a canvas. They use the street as a piano and a canvas. Internationally renowned superstar Peter.O'Toole once said: If I can't be an excellent actor, I must become a criminal.In the movies, he plays the roles of king, beggar, saint, rascal, etc., each role is played in a three-point manner, as if a body really contains several strands of different souls; In the gallery, he anesthetized himself with alcohol, perhaps because he was worried that if he was exposed to the real society, he would really become a criminal.

What is the connection between good actors and criminals? Peter.Otto's words may be based on the artist's intuition and insight.Recently, similar things have been said in the scientific community. Farley, an educational psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, said: I believe that high creativity and crime come from the same source.This source refers to the pursuit of feeling. The so-called pursuit of sensation does not refer to the pursuit of a large number of stimuli, but to experience various internal and external sensations that have never been experienced before.Farley believes that a person's degree of pursuit of feeling is a kind of natural temperament. Psychological tests show that highly creative artists and criminals with disorderly behavior have one thing in common, that is, their degree of pursuit of feeling is higher than that of ordinary people. , the so-called sensory hungry.

But why do some people become creators and others become criminals?Socioeconomic environment and family background appear to be an important watershed.Farley’s research pointed out that upper-middle-class families are more able to provide socially acceptable stimuli to children with a high degree of pursuit of feeling, such as allowing them to learn painting, music, and computers; while children from lower-class families do not have these They have no choice but to take to the streets to meet their same needs, join gangs, make troubles and cause troubles. It can also be said that they are Beethoven without pianos in the slums, Picasso without canvases, and the streets are their piano and canvas. Canvas to satisfy their hunger for sensation.

Temperament is not good or bad, it depends on how you express it.