“For Mark Strand, the poet’s responsibility to be a witness, a recorder of experience, is part of the broader responsibility we all have for keeping the universe ordered through our consciousness:”
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
“at the height of the Romantic period, an artist who was not more than a little savage and mad would not have been taken very seriously, because these qualities were de rigueur for creative souls.”
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
“In the 1960s, when abstract expressionism was the reigning style, those art students who tended to be sullen, brooding, and antisocial were thought by their teachers to be very creative.”
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
“Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.”
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
“creative persons definitely know both extremes and experience both with equal intensity and without inner conflict.”
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
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