Blowing it Quote by Terence McKenna

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

— Rollo May

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this…

— Michael Leunig

“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and…

— Terence McKenna

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…

— Lukas Foss

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure…

— Mary Ruefle

The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.

— Arthur Koestler

Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination,…

— Sigmund Freud

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal…

— Robert Genn

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

— Nadine Gordimer

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

— Andrea Dworkin

“Creativity is not a “thing,” it’s a process that happens as a proactive mental activity to a problem.”

— Pearl Zhu