

“Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.”
― The Courage to Create
― The Courage to Create

“The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.”
― The Courage to Create
― The Courage to Create

“[A] man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.”
― The Courage to Create
― The Courage to Create

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
― Love and Will
― Love and Will

“Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce works that are not only significant to his or her age, but that will also speak to future generations.”
― The Courage to Create
― The Courage to Create
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