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Creative Quotes by Rollo May
- Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new…
- All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
- We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity…
- When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is…
- The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
- The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.
- Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
- By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.
- Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity,…
- In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
- Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We…
- Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a…
More Creative Quotes
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- Be creative. Don`t be worried about what you are doing - one has to do many things - but do everything creatively,… — Rajneesh
- I want to do something creative, not just easy. — Sebastian Bach
- The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. — Ansel Adams
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler
- We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to… — Marianne Williamson
- All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear.… — Robert D. Maurer