“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.” MenWritingHumansEndsMightArtistHumanityForceCreativeClearFateAchieveHe ManCostOrdinarySubtleUrgesVehicleBiographiesGreat ArtCunningUnbornGreat ArtistYokeForces Of NatureHuman Happiness Author:Carl Jung
“Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.” EndsLanguagePaintingDifficultyNoblePeculiarVehicleExpressiveInvaluableTechnicalities Book:The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin
“Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.” MindEndsPathMysteryAreasDisappearDecadesSensesContactAccomplishmentVehicle Author:Charles Lindbergh