The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention of Art

The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention of Art

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Book Description
This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell, Rudyard Kipling, Max Ernst, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry Miller, Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Wigman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Henri Poincar and many others.

From the Back Cover
"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being." (Carl G. Jung)

The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention of Art,Brewster Ghiselin,University of California Press,0520054539,Art,Composition & Creative Writing - General,Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.),Creativity,History - General,Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy

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