"Most creative people have this thing called negative capability, which is the ability to not become annoyed by what one does not understand. So if you, for instance, have no regard for Jackson Pollock, but are drawn to things like Bob Ross’s landscapes, or Thomas Kinkade’s cabins, or Hitler’s watercolors, then rest assured, you have zero negative capability – which doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t be creative (the MAGA poet David Lehman comes to mind here), only that you’re making things way more difficult than they need to be."