The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Interpretation
Being puzzled or confused can spark creativity in both art and science.
Erich Fromm suggests that the ability to feel puzzled or confronted by the unknown is fundamental to creativity. This sense of confusion prompts inquiry and exploration, leading to new ideas and innovations in both artistic and scientific endeavors. It highlights the importance of questioning and wondering as vital components of the creative process.
In practice
In a motivational speech about creativity in arts, one might use this quote to emphasize the value of questioning.
Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern β and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. Thereβs no how-to road map to style. Itβs about self-expression and, above all, attitude.
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.
How well I would write if I were not here!
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
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