Rollo May Quotes

I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.

I'm an artist in my heart.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

The most important factors for any artist, is the honesty towards one's craft, hard work and passion that guides them.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.