All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“What genuine painters do is to reveal the underlying psychological and spiritual conditions of their relationship to their world; thus in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of… — Rollo May Copy Share
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the… — Rollo May Copy Share
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. — Rollo May Copy Share
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” — Rollo May Copy Share
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind… — Rollo May Copy Share
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. — Rollo May Copy Share
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the… — Rollo May Copy Share
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. — Rollo May Copy Share
We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly… — Rollo May Copy Share
