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“Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.”

Edward Norton [Ent. Wkly ew.com] – about the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006) – about a manic-depressive singer

> photo: with Evan Rachel Wood in “Down in the Valley”

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“Negative obsessions are a true negative for everyone, but most creators — and all would-be creators — simply aren’t obsessed enough. For an artist, the absence of positive obsessions leads to long periods of blockage, repetitive work that bores the artist himself, and existential ailments of all sorts.”

> from article: In Praise of Positive Obsessions – by Eric Maisel, PhD

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