Personal Thoughts
from Jenness Cortez
The Art Within:
A Deeper Understanding of
What It Means to Be an Artist
Standing next to her 2010 masterpiece, “The Game Changer,” Jenness Cortez credits her artistic development to the practices she now teaches in the Museum’s Science of Creativity course.
Standing next to her 2010 masterpiece, “The Game Changer,” Jenness Cortez credits her artistic development to the practices she now teaches in the Museum’s Science of Creativity course.
Personal Thoughts
from Jenness Cortez
The Art Within:
A Deeper Understanding of
What It Means to Be an Artist
Every human life is a work of art.
Long before my brush meets the canvas, the creative process has already begun—in the mind, in that unseen realm where thoughts arise, emotions gather, choices form, and intuition quietly guides.
Through decades of study and practice, Yoga Science has taught me that creativity is not a special gift possessed by a few. It is an inherent capacity within every person—waiting to be awakened, refined, and directed.
An artist is anyone who seeks to express what is deepest and most authentic within themselves.
Painters, writers, dancers, and musicians do this through traditional forms.
But teachers, parents, caregivers, physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, builders, and leaders are also artists—shaping understanding, healing, possibility, structure, and compassion on the vast canvas of daily life.
When the Ego, Senses, and unconscious habits dominate the mind, creativity becomes limited—confined by fear, distraction, and ingrained patterns. Yoga Science describes this condition as a form of inner disorder.
But when the functions of the mind are coordinated, the Conscience begins to reflect a higher wisdom.
From this inner stillness comes clarity.
From clarity, inspired action.
And from inspired action, the art of creative living.
From this inner stillness comes clarity.
From clarity, inspired action.
And from inspired action, the art of creative living.
The Jenness Cortez Teaching Museum was created to illuminate this subtle and transformative process.
Through the paintings on view—each an exploration of attention, perception, and mastery—and through the Museum’s “Science of Creativity” curriculum, we explore how creativity unfolds from the inside out.
The Museum invites you not only to observe the beauty before you, but to recognize the beauty within yourself.
To understand that the true medium of creativity is conscious attention.
And to discover that when wisdom guides your thoughts, words, and actions, your entire life becomes a canvas for meaning, harmony, and joy.
REMEMBER:
Every mind is an artist.
Every decision is a brushstroke.
And when your life is guided by the wisdom of your higher Self,
it becomes a masterpiece in the making.
REMEMBER:
Every mind is an artist.
Every decision is a brushstroke.
And when your life is guided by the wisdom of your higher Self,
it becomes a masterpiece in the making.
