Rollo May Quotes

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I work harder with each book. But I don't want it to show on the pages, that's for sure.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.