Carl Jung - “As long as we ourselves are caught up in the process of creation, we neither see nor understand; indeed we ought not to understand, for nothing is more injurious to immediate experience than cognition. But for the purpose of cognitive understanding we must detach ourselves from the creative process and look at it from the outside; only then does it become an image that expresses what we are bound to call ‘meaning’.” On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry, 1922, CW 15: The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature, p121
“The psyche creates reality every day."
[more Jung Quotes]
Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
“The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness.” Nonviolence and Racial Justice, 6 February 1957, Chicago, IL
“You must not become morbidly absorbed in a past mistake but you must seek to outlive it by creative living in the future.” Advice for Living, Ebony, June 1958, Chicago, IL
[more King quotes]
Henri Matisse - “It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.”
- Henri Matisse, In Art
Maria Montessori - “Life makes itself manifest,-life creates, life gives:-and is in its turn held within certain limits and bound by certain laws which are insuperable.” The Montessori Method, chapter 4 [ more Montessori quotes]
Rollo May - 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.
Pablo Picasso - “Good taste is the enemy of creativity.”
Marion Woodman - If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul,
life ceases to have meaning. The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.
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