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Creativity and madness

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0500

The myth and the truth behind great creativity and mental illness, and what research reveals about Virginia Woolf, Edvard Munch and others.

tyler_weedon

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:45:24 -0500

the scientific conception of the world cannot account for the wonder the creative artist experiences by confronting the world or the absurdity of existence through their work. the logician levels the thinker and creative artist.science cannot account for the non-logical identity of human experience.

Phillip Jordan

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:30:49 -0500

Obviously, fame is an uncontrolled variable. Creativity is an intensely private experience,and the extreme contrast with the stuff of publicity would seem exceptionally bizarre.

Ron Fanyak

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:54:59 -0500

Plato describes the creativity of the poet as having a link with the Gods...
a chain of golden links...a description of it as very personal inspiration..an experience that is conscious energy, not rational or linear in its orgin...
perhaps quantum energy in nature.

Tommy Linsley

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:03:12 -0500

Madness drives creativity; creativity breeds further madness.

Creativity is the ability to "think outside the box". Unfortunately, how far one is "outside the box" is in direct relationship to how creative one will be.

However, we should thank the madness that drives creativity; as the world's greatest scientific discoveries and greatest works of art are a direct result of varying degrees of madness. And, this statement suggests another topic of discussion:
intelligence as it relates to madness and thus, creativity. (Subtopic: can creativity exist without intelligence?)

Phyllis Maximilien

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:26:58 -0500

A little madness helps creativity but if one is completely mad one cannot create a thing. There is a fine line in madness. I think that the creative artist is simply a rebel and this rebelliousness is usually not accepted by family and society. An true artist is marginal and that in itself can drive one towards madness, depression, call it what you may.