Absinthe Blog

Absinthe was once the sport that creative people indulged in. In the late 19th century, many artists credited absinthe with giving them inspiration. Drinking absinthe was said to have given them a creative surge. It is common to find artists to cling on to things like absinthe to be inspired. With or without absinthe, the task of getting inspired is a matter of shedding blood, sweat and tears.

The Luck of Inspiration!

You need luck to be inspired. But its ways are perplexing. If you have it, you will find inspiration even in the mundane things around you. If you don’t, it will pass you by without being noticed. When you are tuned to it, you get more than you handle. When you are not, you are hard pressed to find any.

Perhaps, a small part of an artist dies each time they strive to be inspired. Many artists can hit a purple patch. They fall into a stretch where they are not able to be creative at all. It is as if their creative abilities have forsaken them. The artist is left wondering how it comes and where to it goes.

Being in the flow is important and this is what creative persons attribute their abilities to. It is process of tuning oneself to all creation. Everybody gets inspired. The challenge is to stay inspired and maintain the state in which you get inspired. It is a process of living in that state.

Absinthe was lucky for a few

Absinthe was the luck that brought inspirations for some artists of the bygone era. It is believed that famous artists like Picasso, van Gogh, the poet Rimbaud and writer Oscar Wilde sought creative refuge in this drink. They made drinking of the liquor a daily ritual in their lives. It probably gave them relief from the hustle-bustle of everyday life. Many have reported that they received inspirations for their work after a drink.

It brought them to a state of reverie. Absinthe gave them hallucinations. It stretched their perspectives, changed the way things seemed. It distorted their visions temporarily. The state brought on by the drink played with their imagination. It made them perceive things the way they should be, as Oscar Wilde himself has been reported to have said.

It is a pity though that the drink had such an overbearing influence in their lives. Perhaps they paid too high a cost to it.