Creative Quotations | Page 2

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . . . the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

All children have creative power.

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.