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The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression QUOTES

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression QUOTES

1 " The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life. "

― Eric Maisel , The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

2 " The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something. "

― Eric Maisel , The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

3 " If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation. "

― Eric Maisel , The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

4 " Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and alienated, like a refugee far from home in a universe that cares nothing for us. "

― Eric Maisel , The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

5 " An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling. "

― Eric Maisel , The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

6 " Both the biological and psychological approaches are suspect since both posit an unreal world, completely at odds with human experience, in which people do not get depressed for good reasons having to do with their experience in life and their uneasiness about the facts of existence. Rather, people only get depressed because something in them is flawed or broken. Depression of any magnitude, these approaches claim, is always an illness and never a reaction to being dropped, willy-nilly, into a world not of their making, which they are forced to make mean something. "

― Eric Maisel , The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

7 " With success came a new, deeper doubt that any activity, even his cherished writing, could make life mean anything. "

― Eric Maisel , The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression