Art Quote by Rollo May

“Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.” quote by Rollo May — Download Open image

“Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.”

Rollo May

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Art Chips Defense Delight Ego Existential Existentialism Games Good art Healing Intellectual Strategy Truth Wells Wounds

More by Rollo May

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we…

Rollo May

Image

Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of…

Rollo May

Image

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

Rollo May

Image

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the…

Rollo May

Image

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Rollo May

Image

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Rollo May

Image

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

Rollo May

Image

“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.”

Rollo May

Image

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

Rollo May

Image

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…

Rollo May

Image

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Rollo May

Image

Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the…

Rollo May

Image

Explore all 259 Rollo May quotes

More Art quotes

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Aeschylus

Image

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

Aaron Rose

Image

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Image

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

Image

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

Justina Chen Headley