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“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

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Author:Zoe Kazan

“Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Children Stills Self Whole Seems Mother Individual Results Creative Evolution Birth Mass Conscious Consequence Blind Impulse Rebirth Self Conscious Creative Work

Book:journal

Source: journal

“As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.”

Giving Should Purpose Suffering Creative Birth Lovely Be Creative

Book:A Man of the People

Source: A Man of the People

“If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.”

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Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.”

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Book:Psychological Types

Source: Psychological Types

“The all-pervading energy source of existence or Shakti manifests itself as creation. Shakti is the divine mother who gives birth to and nurtures the newborn-whether it is a newborn babies a brand new relationship, a fresh idea, or a magical manifestation. Although Shakti is beyond the boundaries of gender, form or color, we call It Mother because of its mothering and creative qualities.”

“Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.”

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Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“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.”

Source: Psychological Types

“Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.”

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Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!”

Giving Felt Creative Creation Birth Giving Birth

Author:Sam Taylor-Wood

“The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process”

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Author:James A. Baldwin