Carl Jung Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Leadership, Fun

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

• All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Men, Imagination

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

• The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Passion

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

• But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ifs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

• There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Men, Creative

  "Psychology and Poetry". Book by Carl Jung, June, 1930.

• Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Thinking, Soul

• From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Creativity, Creative

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

• Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Creativity, Giving

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