Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.
Ernest BeckerThe artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
Ernest BeckerThe road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
Ernest BeckerThe creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of exยญperience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" creaยญtivity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.
Ernest Becker