I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
So far as the artist is concerned, the
unlimited extent of human experience is not so important for him as the depth and intensity with which he experiences
things."
Thomas Wolfe
"What now?" young Hilary prodded. "Can't
we just exist for a day?" "Too depressing. Invent something."
May Sarton
"I feel anyone who does
anything great in art and culture is out of control. It is done by people who are possessed.
Anyone who is
gong to practise on the piano 22 hours a day is crazy. He or she has to be crazy and it is an embarrassment to
deal with crazy people.
So there is a great attempt to formalize art to contain it, to hold their bowels, to
be properly toilet trained.
Yet the whole exciting thing about art has to do with being out of control. It
has to do with real things."
Nancy Grossman
"Things are
not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking
place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious
existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Quotes about the Individualist
Without art, the crudeness of reality would
make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
Being an artist
means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree
which does not force its sap and stands
confident in the storms of spring
without the fear that after them may come no summer."
Rainer Maria
Rilke
Creativity Quotes Booklist
"The especially creative
person is precisely he whose personality tensions are especially susceptible to adjustment; he is more sensitive
and suffers more, but he enjoys greater possibilities."
Rollo May
"The work of art
acts like another living person with whom we are conversing."
Anton Ehrenzweig
"I suspect that every writer
is secretly writing for someone."
Brewster Ghiselin
You need chaos in your
soul to give birth to a dancing star.
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