Happy are they whose criticism foreshadows, or coalesces with, their own artistic creations; for the rest of us, the crisis of criticism (the two words share the same Greek root) is indeed constant.
This kind of existence sounds as if it might require intimidating levels of self-discipline, but on closer inspection it often seems to be a kind of safety net: the alternative to a rigid structure is either no artistic creations, for those with day jobs, or the existential terror of no structure at all.
Llewyn Davis has, within him, the raw material — the sublime disorder — that's essential for artistic creation of the highest order.
April 26 , 1900Vienna, Austria February 27 , 1957New York City, New York Ernst Kris, (born April 26 , 1900 Vienna died Feb. 27, 1957, New York City) psychologist and historian of art, known for his psychoanalytic studies of artistic creation and for combining psychoanalysis and direct observation of infants in child psychology.
As a metaphor for artistic creation, the golem legend seems irresistible for writers.
If anyone knows the difference between adequate and inadequate habitats for artistic creation, it is Mr. Brown, 37. A resident of Brooklyn, he has long struggled for a warm rehearsal space large enough to fit his troupe, which he founded in 1985 when he was 19.
"We're in a very low moment of history for artistic creation," he said.
Their hair falls out, but that's the price you pay for artistic creation.
Childbirth is a common metaphor for artistic creation and, in the recent experience of the dramatist Joe Penhall, the two have blurred.
The tours, though, are only part of the plan, Mr. Malone said, to "make Ten Chimneys serve the 21st century the same way it did the 20th century -- as a place for artistic creation and discussion".
