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Creative work, insofar as it truly touches the depths and heights of inspiration, takes our minds out of our personal troubles and thus gives us temporary peace--for it brings the impersonal Overself into contact with our troubled person and the contact provides us with a higher point of view. Those moments of artistic inspiration when the mind becomes almost incandescent are always moments of intense concentration and rapt absorption. "It is from this condition of their being (trance), in its most imperfect form, that Poetry, Music, Art--all that belong to an idea of Beauty--take their immortal birth."--Lytton's Zanoni

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 2 : Creativity, Genius > # 82