“Instead, it may be more useful to view creativity through the lens of bittersweetness – of grappling simultaneously with darkness and light. It’s not that pain equals art. It’s that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better.”

“Instead, it may be more useful to view creativity through the lens of bittersweetness – of grappling simultaneously with darkness and light. It’s not that pain equals art. It’s that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better.”

— Susan Cain