We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act. — 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
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan… — 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
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. We could… — 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
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's… — 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
The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center. — 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
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To be open to creativity, one needs the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom. — 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
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
