Rollo May Quotes about Art

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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Rollo May

Art, Healing, Games

Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Rollo May

Art, Creativity, Rivers

Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company