Rollo May Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• 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.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Quiet People, Being Alone

• 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 essential to the work of art or poem.

  Rollo May

  Art, Creativity, Rivers

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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 this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

  Rollo May

  Time, Creativity, Imagination

• 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, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

  Rollo May

  Passion, Creativity, Childhood

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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 need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Heart, Creativity

• Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Definitions, Born

  "The Courage to Create".

• Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

  Rollo May

  Passion, Creativity, Commitment

• All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Creativity, Artist

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

• Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Encounters, Understood

  "The Courage to Create".

• 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 of dedication and commitment.

  Rollo May

  Commitment, Creativity, Dedication

• We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Creating, Sequels

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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 feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Using Your Talents

• Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Profound

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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 form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Writing, Creativity

  Rollo May (2011). “Love & Will”, p.320, W. W. Norton & Company

• What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Love Is, Said

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

• ... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

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  Creativity, Artist, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

• Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Simple

• The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Expression, People

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

• Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Creating, Encounters

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company

• Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

  Rollo May

  Believe, Creativity, Joy

• Creativity is a yearning for immortality

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Immortality, Yearning

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

• By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Names, Consciousness

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

• Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Something New, Process

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

• Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

  Rollo May

  Mean, Creativity, Self

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Creative, Able

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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