In other words, to some extent or another he tried to use an assembly-line kind of time for your creative productivity.

education does not work with the child’s abilities, but against them.

The creator’s time rises out of the seasons and the tides,

remember that relaxation is one of creativity’s greatest champions — not its enemy.

make a great effort to fit the creator’s time into what I will call assembly-line time.

As I have mentioned before, science’s determination to be objective almost immediately brought about a certain artificial shrinking of psychological reality. What could not be proven in the laboratory was presumed not to exist at all.

“I could list hundreds of examples of what I mean. This is one of those obvious ideas that seem childish once it’s thought of. I don’t care whether or not it’s a profound thought; it has meaning for me. But as far as I know, we humans are the only species that’s obsessed with ‘change’, and ‘progress’, and ‘controlling or mastering nature’; with lea

you are both astonished by the magical ease by which work — real work — can be accomplished: events perceived out of place and time and so forth.

You have been living in an industrialized, scientific society, so that the benefits and the great disadvantages of the rational approach appear everywhere in the social and political world. Artists of any kind find such an approach the least friendly, for it directly contradicts the vast thrust of man’s creativity in several important areas.