Every production must resemble its author.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

No great thing is created suddenly.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of this mixture he makes a work of art.

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is the experience of receiving and bearing.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.