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