Beauty and Form
Aesthetics is usually defined as “a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful and with judgments concerning beauty.” I recall the endurance […]
Observations of a One-eyed Man
Vulnerable World
“One way of looking at human creativity is as a process of pulling balls out of a giant urn. The balls represent possible ideas, discoveries, […]
You’ve forgotten your childhood; It will make you suffer until you heed it
“In your case, mind and nature, consciousness and dream world lie very far apart. You’ve forgotten your childhood; it cries for you from the depths […]
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship
“… it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. […] Today the individual has become […]
Victor Frankl quotes
“I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibrium or, as it is […]
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines
You just have to do your creative work, whatever that is for you. Failure or success are matters to be assessed much, much later, once […]
You need not teach an acorn to grow into an oak tree
“You need not, and in fact cannot, teach an acorn to grow into an oak tree, but when given a chance, its intrinsic potentialities will […]
They Thought They Were Free
“One doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only […]
My attempts to adapt myself to the standardized world remain fruitless
It may well be that my thinking of today is somewhat different from that of twenty years ago, but my feelings and my being, my […]