With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light—by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected. It is useless, possibly even profane, to ask for an explanation.
If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more...
~ Jules Renard in THE JOURNAL OF JULES RENARD