A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
Zdroj: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 93.
Kontext: A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. This term, first coined by Kurt Goldstein, is being used in this paper in a much more specific and limited fashion. It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.
„Práce je všechno, co člověk dělat musí, a hra je všechno, co člověk dělat nemusí.“
„Umělec musí malovat to, co nachází, nesmí chtít namalovat něco, co nenašel.“
„Aby se člověk mohl změnit, musí ho někdo přijmout takového, jaký je.“
ti všichni jsou v hudebníkovi zahrnuti
Zdroj: v dopise Bruno Walterovi, r. 1904. Cit. podle Smolka, Jaroslav & kol.: Dějiny hudby, s. 502
„Básník musí vědět, kde a jak skončit…“
„Opravdový umělec se musí sebeničit.“
Originál: (en) A true artist must self-destruct.
Zdroj: [Hogan, Peter, The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground, Rough Guides, London, 2007, 1, 300, 978-1-84353-588-1, anglicky, 198]
„Básník musí mluvit i sprostě, aby byl jemný.“
