Carl Jung Quotes

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

I believe in creative work.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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

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