All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.