Seven Paintings and Quotations of Frida Kahlo I paint flowers so they will not die. I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through…
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Carl Jung, on the Importance of Drawing and Painting It does not suffice in all cases to elucidate only the conceptual context of a dream content. Often it is necessary to clarify a vague content by giving it a visible form. This can be done by drawing, painting, or modeling. Often the hands will solve…
Carl Jung — The artist gives up free will… Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory aptitudes. On the one side he is a human being with a personal life, while on the other side he is an impersonal, creative process… The artist is not a person endowed with free will…
Carl Jung: A person must pay dearly for the divine gift of the creative fire The artist’s life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him on the one hand the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other…
Carl Jung, on the Effect of Creative Urge on the Artist The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn…
Carl Jung, on the Healing Function of Art In this way the work of the poet comes to meet the spiritual need of the society in which he lives, and for this reason his work means more to him than his personal fate, whether he is aware of this or not. Being essentially the instrument…
Carl Jung, on Art and the Collective Unconscious The rapid and worldwide growth of a psychological interest over the last two decades shows unmistakably that modern man is turning his attention from outward material things to his own inner processes. Expressionism in art prophetically anticipated this subjective development, for all art intuitively apprehends coming changes…
Magritte: Key to Dreams Understanding the Symbolism of Eggs in Dreams In coming across Michael Cornwall’s excellent post about how Jung utilized emotion as a key in understanding the dream, I somehow got to wondering how Internet dream sites interpreted dreams of eggs. In general, one has to be very careful of…