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Physicist and Writer Alan Lightman on the Shared Psychology of Creative Breakthrough in Art and Science
An exquisite account of those moments that feel “like a great hand has suddenly grabbed hold and flung you across the surface like a skimming stone.”
Keats on the Joy of Singledom and How Solitude Opens Our Creative Channels to Truth and Beauty
“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the window pane are my Children… I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”
Artist Anne Truitt on Vulnerability, the Price of Integrity, and What Sustains the Creative Spirit
“It is not true that only artists understand art, for there are in every generation some people who not only understand it but also enhance its reach by appreciation.”
Creative Magic and What Makes a Great Writer: Joseph Conrad’s Beautiful Tribute to Henry James
“All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind.”
Big Magic: Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Courage and the Art of Living in a State of Uninterrupted Marvel
“Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”
Mendelssohn on Creative Integrity and the Highest Satisfaction for the Artist
“When I have composed a piece just as it sprang from my heart, then I have done my duty towards it; and whether it brings hereafter fame, honor, decorations, or snuff-boxes, etc., is a matter of indifference to me.”
André Gide on Growing Happier as We Grow Older and Using Mortality as a Mobilizing Force for Creative Work
“Age cannot manage to empty either sensual pleasure of its attractiveness or the whole world of its charm.”
The Problem of Shakespeare’s Sister: Virginia Woolf on Gender in Creative Culture
“To write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. Everything is against the likelihood that it will come from the writer’s mind whole and entire.”
John Steinbeck’s Prophetic Dream About How the Commercial Media Machine Is Killing Creative Culture
Half a century before Buzzfeed, a nocturnal epiphany about the greatest threat to art.
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