“A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.” FearDarkCreativeDangerComputerStudiosBlockLockedDwellingCreative Block Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.” WorldMindChildrenPlayActionFearDarkCreativeFrontsConceptsAdultsEnormousFearfulYardsDark WorldAdult Children Author:Arthur J. Deikman
“It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.” PeopleEnoughHandsLightArtistLinesDarkAnimalResponsibilityKnownCreativeToo MuchHand In HandCreative ArtCreative Artists Author:Edward Albee
“The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.” FirstsEndsDarkStepsCreativityCreativeSightBusyFearfulFirst StepsChaotic Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.” MenWayWantPersonsAbleOrderFatherSidesDarkHalfCreativeHusbandNegativeFulfilledGood PersonFather Husband Author:Frank Iero
“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
“I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.” PersonsSidesDarkWatchesCreativeWillingMoonSensitiveWizardsDark SideCreative Person Author:Wayne Coyne
“People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows.” PeopleKnowsWritingIdeasLife IsNamesGrowsCan DoDarkDestinyCreativeClearCuttingGoes OnGuitarBe CreativeOur DestinyYour DestinyRubbishWriting PoetryFlutes Author:Rajneesh
“Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!” LongSometimesDarkCreativeTunnelsDampCreative Life Author:Ai Qing