“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.” ArtFeelingsDreamPainTogetherJoyArtistHumanitySpeakWonderCreativityOur LivesMysteryCreationSorrowIllusionCapacityDelightConvictionPityAspirationSubtleSolidarityFellowshipInvincibleUnbornLatentCreating Beauty Book:The Portable Conrad Source: The Portable Conrad
“Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.” IfsPainSecretCreativityTroubleDoorsSilentConfessionRevealing Author:Eric Maisel
“Pain makes hens and poets cackle.” PainCreativityPoetHens Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.” PainSuccessSpiritVoiceGriefCreativityWeaknessEndureImmortalBowsSoleBrows Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.” LightPainMovingCreativityDarknessChaosRealizationBurnedForgivenBreakthroughBreakdown Author:Marianne Williamson