Darlene Olivo, visual artist/writer
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  • Visual Art
    • The Dream Series
    • Slide Show (for viewing larger files)
    • Composite
    • Price List and Ordering
    • Shrines/Reliquaries
    • Slide Show (for viewing larger files)
    • Paintings/Sculpture
  • Writing: The First Novel
    • If Ever I Cease to Love
    • Mystick Krewe of Swan Songs >
      • Cover
      • Table of Contents
      • Tableaux Vivants >
        • Last Respects
        • Garden of Memories
        • Merry Widow
        • Last Laugh
        • In the Sweet By and By
      • Advance Praise >
        • Dead People
        • Live People
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On Creativity

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To h[er]... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, h[er] very breath is cut off from h[er]. [Sh]e must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency [s]he is not really alive unless [s]he is creating.”  Pearl S. Buck




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