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Creativity Quotes by Rollo May
- What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you…
- Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of…
- All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
- Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.
- Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
- 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…
- We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
- 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…
- Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are…
- What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.
- Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
- Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware,…
- The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.
- Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
- Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.
- By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.
- It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense…
- Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being,…
- 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.
- To be open to creativity, one needs the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
More Creativity Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to… — Marianne Williamson
- I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains… — Leonardo da Vinci
- Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love. — Rajneesh