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Carl Jung Quotes about Creativity

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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.

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.

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

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

Carl Jung
Creativity, Thinking, Soul

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

Carl Jung
Art, Creativity, Giving

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”

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