Dmitri Freund

"Art liberates the real import of appearances from the semblance and deception of this bad and fleeting world, and imparts to phenomenal semblances a higher reality, born of mind.  Art have the higher reality and the more genuine existence in comparison with the realities of common life." –Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, G. W. F. Hegel

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives … [and] when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life. –Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi