Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and classical philologist, appointed professor at Basel at twenty-four. He wrote aphoristically, in fragments, and put nearly everything his age took for granted under attack — morality, religion, the idea of truth. He spent his last eleven years in mental collapse, unable to work.
About this theme: Creativity
Creativity is usually discussed as inspiration arriving from outside, and least often as what it mostly is: work done on days when it does not want to be done. The tension is old. Antiquity had muses, Romanticism had genius, and the twentieth century had the working habits of writers who rose at five because otherwise nothing happened at all.
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- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.— Arthur Schopenhauer
- Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.— Rumi
- Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.— Benjamin Franklin
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.— George Bernard Shaw
- Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.— Nikola Tesla