Paul Whybrow
Full Member
What about the creative state? In it a man is taken out of himself. He lets down, as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he makes a work of art...And when the process is over, when the picture or symphony or lyric or novel (or whatever it is) is complete, the artist, looking back on it, will wonder how on earth he did it. And indeed he did not do it on earth.
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster
