Two quotes relating to creativity
October 20th 2011 21:36
The following quote comes from Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle - chapter 8. L'Engle may be quoting Martin Luther.
The saints (and artists) are those who not only accept, but rejoice in the incongruity and so learn that laughter is holy. The infinite disparity between God's love and man's deserts is an indubitable fact; the saint embraces it for joy. The greater the incongruity, the more wonderful the love and mercy of God. The saint does not call himself a worm because he enjoys being wormy, but because there is simply no other way graphic enough to express the richness of God and the meagreness of men...
The book the next quote comes from has a kind of sentimental value for me:
when, in 1989, I first became the assistant in OC Books (a shop I eventually managed for around 16 years) I used to spend my lunch hours reading Hummel's Galileo Connection, and was then forced to keep the book, because I spilt coffee on it...! I still have it, coffee-stain and all.
The Galileo Connection - Charles E Hummel - chapter 13
Polanyi identifies four phases present in all fields of creative activity: preparation, incubation, illumination and verification.
The saints (and artists) are those who not only accept, but rejoice in the incongruity and so learn that laughter is holy. The infinite disparity between God's love and man's deserts is an indubitable fact; the saint embraces it for joy. The greater the incongruity, the more wonderful the love and mercy of God. The saint does not call himself a worm because he enjoys being wormy, but because there is simply no other way graphic enough to express the richness of God and the meagreness of men...
The book the next quote comes from has a kind of sentimental value for me:
The Galileo Connection - Charles E Hummel - chapter 13
Polanyi identifies four phases present in all fields of creative activity: preparation, incubation, illumination and verification.
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