Rollo May Quotes About Creativity

• Para estar abierto a la creatividad, uno debe tener la capacidad de hacer un uso constructivo de la soledad. Hay que superar el miedo a estar solo.

  Rollo May

  Inspiración, Gente tranquila, Estar solo

• La creatividad surge de la tensión entre la espontaneidad y las limitaciones, estas últimas (como las orillas del río) obligan a la espontaneidad a adoptar las diversas formas que son esenciales para la obra de arte o el poema.

  Rollo May

  Art, Creativity, Rivers

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

• Cuando estás completamente absorto o atrapado en algo, te vuelves ajeno a las cosas que te rodean o al paso del tiempo. Es esta absorción en lo que estás haciendo lo que libera tu inconsciente y libera tu imaginación creativa.

  Rollo May

  Time, Creativity, Imagination

• La creatividad no es sólo la inocente espontaneidad de nuestra juventud e infancia; también debe casarse con la pasión del ser humano adulto, que es una pasión por vivir más allá de la propia muerte.

  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".

• La creatividad es el proceso de crear algo nuevo. La creatividad requiere pasión y compromiso. Trae a nuestra conciencia lo que antes estaba oculto y apunta a una nueva vida. Es una experiencia de conciencia elevada: el éxtasis.

  Rollo May

  Pasión, creatividad, compromiso

• 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".

• No podemos querer tener percepciones. No podemos querer tener creatividad, pero podemos querer entregarnos a la experiencia creativa con intensidad de dedicación y compromiso.

  Rollo May

  Compromiso, creatividad, dedicación

• 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

• Sea cual sea la esfera en la que nos encontremos, hay una profunda alegría en la comprensión de que estamos ayudando a formar la estructura del nuevo mundo. Esto es valor creativo, por pequeñas o fortuitas que sean nuestras creaciones.

  Rollo May

  Coraje, Creatividad, Profundidad

  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.

  Rollo May

  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

• Cada acto de auténtica creatividad significa alcanzar un mayor nivel de autoconciencia y libertad personal.

  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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