“Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.” WorldFirstsLooksArtHappensEarthSufferingStepsCreativityTasksCreatorFirst StepsKinderGod Image Author:Elizabeth O'Connor
“Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.” SufferingCreativityScrutiny Author:Sark
“I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment and suffering. We're addicted to this idea because it makes for good bio pics... but I actually think it's better to live a life where you're constantly exploring your curiosity and creativity.” ThinkingTryingKindIdeasSufferingOrderCreativityCreativeCuriosityExploringStereotypeTormentCreative LifeBios Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.” IfsWantTryingSufferingCreativityTransformed Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
“I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.” SufferingPassionGivenFunCreativityMedicineEaseDeathbedPsychiatric Author:Patch Adams
“A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.” PeopleThinkingSufferingCreativityBlocked Author:Patrick Califia
“We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.” NeedsIdeasProblemBigsSufferingPovertyCreativityEnvironmentViolenceCrazyDangerousHugeRacismInnovationSolveMassiveHomophobiaCreativity And InnovationFailure Is Not An OptionCrazy Ideas Author:Brené Brown
“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.” FeelsHumansSufferingHumanityHuman BeingsInspiringCreativityGaySickNervous Author:Marilyn Monroe
“Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel it. I think it is a long, long, way off. In the meantime there’s suffering and darkness and confusion and absurdities, and it’s people kind of going in circles. It’s fantastic. It’s like a strange carnival: it’s a lot of fun, but it’s a lot of pain.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFeelsKindLongWholePainSufferingFunInterestingBehindsCreativityDarknessStrangeCirclesConfusionFantasticAbsurdityLong WayCarnivals Author:David Lynch
“The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.” ThinkingRealArtistSufferingEnjoyCreativityStrangeBlessingSolitudeSafeConsciousCurseIsolationNurtureBeing AloneSingularityReal Artists Author:Peter Schjeldahl