I Heart Anais Nin
June 20th, 2008 by Gnat
What a quote:
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
- Posted in Art
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Interesting fact: Anais Nin lived in Silver Lake near the end of her life.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I would love to find her old house sometime (if it is still around)!
June 24th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I love yr blog Nat!
Been reading i at workt since you told us via myspacer bouty bout it.
Have you ever read “The Novel Of The Future” by Nin? Killer texxt!
June 24th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
It looks like the house is at 2247 Hidalgo Street. Field trip?
June 25th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Field trip, yes!