In this sense genuine artists are so bound up with their age that they cannot communicate separated from it. In this sense, too, the historical situation conditions the creativity. For the consciousness which obtains in creativity is not the superficial level of objectified intellectualization, but is an encounter with the world on a level that undercuts the subject-object split. "Creativity" to rephrase our definition, is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his or her world.


Ch 2 : The Nature of Creativity, p. 54 - The Courage to Create (1975)

Rollo May Quotes

In this sense genuine artists are so bound up with their age that they cannot communicate separated from it. In this sense, too, the historical...

In this sense genuine artists are so bound up with their age that they cannot communicate separated from it. In this sense, too, the historical...

In this sense genuine artists are so bound up with their age that they cannot communicate separated from it. In this sense, too, the historical...

In this sense genuine artists are so bound up with their age that they cannot communicate separated from it. In this sense, too, the historical...