“But art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experience: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if See more

Whenever the collective unconscious becomes a living experience & is brought to bear upon the conscious outlook of an age, this event is a creative See more

Changes to oven manuals after Hansel and Gretel's adventure. #fairytales (Image - actual manual for the new oven we just purchased) See more

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips See more

“The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent See more

Our inner world is reality, reality even more real than the apparent world; to call fantasy or fairy tale what merely seems illogical means that See more

Myths, therefore, express vital, instinctive knowledge, and when one trusts in this knowledge, then one is healthy. This has nothing at all to do with See more

Through all the ages poets and artists have often been prophets, because their work, or the material for it, comes to them from the same See more

The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. ~ Robert Henri [in The Creative Act, Rick See more

Creativeness presupposes a tremendous capacity for being genuine, for letting go, for being spontaneous—for if one cannot be spontaneous one cannot really be creative—therefore most See more

There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t See more

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.
~Ursula K. Le Guinn
Still from Laura's film, Gnarly Inside

[O]ne of the greatest losses we have is the loss of a symbolic life, a life informed by mythology in the most noble sense of See more

Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people’s myths because See more

A fundamental tenet of archetypal psychology is the interchangeability of mythology and psychology, that mythology is a psychology of antiquity and that psychology is a See more

“For fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it, too, and that is precisely why See more

When we read myths and fairy tales, if we let ourselves step into their world of poetry and imagination, we step out of the rational, See more

"First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own dreams bring to See more