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Creative Quotes by Carl Jung
- Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things…
- Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.
- From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source…
- The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and…
- The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
- There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . .…
- As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely…
- The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common…
- The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating…
- True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you…
- Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the…
- The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes…
- All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with…
- Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is…
- A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.
- Creative power is mightier than its possessor.
- The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
- The creative mind plays with the objects it loves
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