Anthony Storr Creative Quotations

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.