Time, forgetting and incubation – Oliver Sacks on creativity @Brainpicker #Writing
It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled. It is a gamble as all creative projects must be, for the new direction may not turn out to be productive at all.
Image credit: Kathy deWitt/Alamy, from the obituary of Oliver Sacks on Nature.com
