“... 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.” FeelsDoeMomentsUseJoyArtistPleasureEmotionConsciousnessCreativityCreativeAnxietyCreatingScientistSatisfactionMoodDefinedContrastGratificationAccompany Book:The Courage to Create Source: The Courage to Create
“An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.” SelfArtistProcessCreativeTeachingOneselfObsessionFragileInquiryQuirky Author:Teresita Fernandez
“The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.” WayArtistCreativeStrangePursueMysteriousInnocenceUnconsciousMysterious Ways Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.” ThinkingCountryDreamArtistDarkCreativityCreativeImpulse Author:Anne Rivers Siddons
“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.” MayArtSelfMomentsLyingArtistHealingCreativeExpressionPeriodsSolitudeEncountersMe AloneSelf ExpressionAlone TimeUpkeepRecharging Author:Julia Cameron
“I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.” ShouldSaidArtistBeliefAbilityCreativeSubjectsCreative ArtUnwrittenCreative ArtistsForteWaldo EmersonRalph Waldo Author:Fredrika Bremer
“As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.” MindHumansLittlesArtCountrySpiritArtistWealthRaceResponsibilityMusicCreativeSpecialColorGeniusCallingCivilizationArt IsImportanceDemocraticDemocratOur CountryRecognitionLiberationHuman MindFree SocietyDemocratic SocietyFloweringCreative Genius Author:John F. Kennedy