Creative Act Quotes

61 Creative Act quotes by 53 unique authors

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
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what… — Lukas Foss
Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act. — Jeffry A Timmons
Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost… — Twyla Tharp
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. — Marcel Duchamp
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength. — Asger Jorn
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it,… — James Dyson
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow… — Ben Okri
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation! — Sam Taylor-Wood
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting… — Marcel Duchamp
My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto. — Ram Dass

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