Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Joseph Zinker, fully Joseph Chaim Zinker

German-born American Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and Author. Phenomnenologist of Sensation, Passion and Aesthetics

"Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world."

"Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. "

"In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity. "

"Creativity is a celebration of life."

"It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent. "