“Let the
bird sing without deciphering the song.”
-
Emerson
“If I am
not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I?”
-
the Talmud
“My
resiliency comes from the process
of the work itself, and the hope of making a difference.”
- Dr. Joan Abrahamson
“Do we
assume that to be creative we are condemned to a life eked out of the
hard-bitten territory of alienation and desperation? Must we prepare ourselves
for the possibility that our work will be cast in the dubious critical light of
an ambiguous legacy?
“There
are no sure answers to these questions, as each man’s life spins on the axis of
his own idiosyncratic bundle of talents and experiences, triumphs and petty
failures. There are as yet no firm conclusions as to the relationship between
the creative process and psychic disorder, but there is one small serviceable
observation that we can draw from the testimony of these creators: if you’re
interested in pursuing creative work and in having it recognized and even
rewarded, you had better cultivate an ability for self-renewal, an ability to
be resilient.”
- Denise
Shekerjian
“It’s not
that creativity and madness are necessarily linked, but rather that creativity
and deviance (sometimes heroic,
sometimes reckless) go hand in hand.”
- Denise
Shekerjian
“Good science
and good art are always about a condition of awe. This may seem to you like a
large theme, but the best science and poetry at its greatest are not smaller
than that. I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the
scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.”
- Derek
Walcott
Instinct
presents the creator with a range of possibilities; judgment is how he selects
among them, keeping what is useful and turning aside that which clutters,
distracts, and causes static in the mind. …
Judge too
soon and a new, imperfect, and fragile thought born from instinct or from some
even hazier impetus may be cut off before it has a chance to mature and
withstand scrutiny.
- Denise
Shekerjian
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