Tu Excitas Ut

Augustine addresses this to God who is the Tu of the line. Two elements will interest christians and non-christians alike. Both point to an anthropology keenly attuned to the creative process in the arts, business and life in general.	A Latin edition of the Confessions is available.
An English translation of the Confessions is available.	Augustine writes our "heart" not our hearts. So, he really is making a basic claim for the human condition. That claim taken out of its theological framework has the following shape: a person becomes stimulated to excitment and therefore is happy to respond to the stimulus because that's how we are made or conditioned to respond to the world around us. When we do so respond, we are happy. When we don't, we get upset.
He also says that God made us "towards" him not "for" him as some translations have it. This simple spatial relationship allows us a sense of direction in life. God may well be all around us but we are heading "towards" him. God becomes our stimulus in whose direction we are happy to go.	Augustine
This stimuli/response scenario applies to any endeavour. We all want to do the things that are exciting to us. If we can earn a living doing it or share our experiences with family and friends when doing it, we understand ourselves to be happy.	an interesting anthropology
If you look at the creative process, this shape remains. If creativity is an ordering of chaos or a breaking through limits or an instance of transcendence, then creativity happens when we really respond to stimuli. This stimuli/response relationship is a gift, a surprise, utterly new and therefore uncontrollable. It is risky but highly rewarding. As actors, our ability to improvise or respond to the "what if" of a character's given circumstances is our ability to respond to stimuli that excites us enough, each in our own way, so that we are quite happy to respond. Our response is our creative act.	or theology for our times
Actors, writers and producers specialize in the creative process per se just to do their job. But the stimuli/response formula really can apply to any and all skill sets, situations and jobs.	Quid?