Rollo May Creating Quotations

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

... 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.

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.