Creativity Quotes by Rollo May

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

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Creativity is a yearning for immortality

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

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Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware…

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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

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

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

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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have…

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Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

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Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as…

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Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as…

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It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist…

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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was…

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Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan…

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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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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various…

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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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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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“Only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. We could…

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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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Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's…

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What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to…

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The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would…

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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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“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the…

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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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Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as…

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To be open to creativity, one needs the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

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By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

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Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.

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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

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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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Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

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What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

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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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