Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Source: In Artists in Quotation, by Donna Ward La Cour, 1989.
-- Erich Fromm, (Mar 23 1900-1980), German-US psychoanalyst; He dealt with the problem of Western man coming to terms with sense of isolation, e.g., Escape from Freedom, 1941.