March 2010
14 posts
“negative moods “promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style.” Because we’re more critical of what we’re writing, we produce more refined prose, the sentences polished by our angst. As Roland Barthes observed, “A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”
—from this NYT article about depression (via flapjacksal)
“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Title of new painting is "Female Avatar"
