anthony

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating" --pearl s buck "i feel there are territories within that are totally unknown. huge, mysterious and dangerous territories. we think we know ourselves, when we really know only this little itty bitty part. we have this social person that we present to each other. we have these galaxies inside of us, and if we don't enter those in art, or one kind or another, whether it's playwriting, or painting, or music, or whatever, then i don't understand the point in doing anything. i try to go into parts of myself that are unknown, and i think that those parts are related to everbody. they're not unique to me... they're not my personal domain. catharsis i getting rid of something. i'm not looking to get rid of it, i'm looking to find it. i'm not doing this in order to vent demon... i want to shake hands with them." --Sam Shepard