Creative Quotes by Rollo May

14 Creative quotes by Rollo May

Rollo May’s existential lens on imagination appears in these fourteen thoughtful lines. He probes the anxiety and freedom that accompany the act of creating something truly personal.

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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

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The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task…

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By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear…

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The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage,…

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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of…

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Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure…

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Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns…

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We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative…

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Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and…

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... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast…

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Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in…

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Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

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“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.”

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By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

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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…

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One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

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Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the…

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