World is the pattern of meaningful relations in which a person exists and in the design of which he or she participates. It has objective reality, to be sure, but it is not simply that. World is interrelated with the person at every moment. A continual dialectical process goes on between world and self and self and world; one implies the other, and neither can be understood if we omit the other. This is why one can never localize creativity as a subjective phenomenon; one can never study it simply in terms of what goes on within the person. The pole of world is an inseparable part of the creativity of an individual. What occurs is always a process, a doing - specifically a process interrelating the person and his or her world.

Artists encounter the landscape they propose to paint-they look at it, observe it from this angle and that. They are, as we say, absorbed in it. Or, in the cas…

In this sense genuine artists are so bound up with their age that they cannot communicate separated from it. In this sense, too, the historical situation condi…

The creative process must be explored not as the product of sickness, but as representing the highest degree of emotional health, as the expression of the norm…

In this sense genuine artists are so bound up with their age that they cannot communicate separated from it. In this sense, too, the historical situation condi…

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.