The creative process

The act of creating anything,whether it is art, music or pancakes must be inspired by something. I enjoy sketching and painting.I do paint quite often,but sometimes I can go for months without creating anything. When ever this happens my wife usually asks me what's wrong and if I'm having creativity issues? Quite often she refers to these spells as an artists equivalent to writers block, but I never agree. When writers suffer from writers block they are usually at some sort of loss for words or ideas. When ever I stop painting, there is always an idea or concept in my head that I like but just not inspired enough to put the paint on the canvas. I never thought about it like this before but I guess these months of not painting the ideas in my head could be considered a time of gestation.