Creative Act Quotes

61 quotes by 53 authors

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it. — Robert Motherwell
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act. — Lawrence Halprin
Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. — Arthur Koestler
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the… — Terence McKenna
Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. — Rollo May
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. — Atom Egoyan
Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort. — Henri Matisse
Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible? — Erwin McManus
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world. — Tom Shadyac
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. — Arthur Erickson
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it… — Rowan Williams
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act. — Rollo May
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch
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… — Carl Jung
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing… — Michael Leunig
I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… — Konrad Lorenz
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that… — Nadine Gordimer
By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death. — Rollo May

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