"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
–– Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist
via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2009, p. 190.
"Whenever someone creates something with all their heart, then that creation is given a soul."
–– Hayao Miyazaki (b. 1941), Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist
"Creation is lifework, creation is how ... you spend your life, you cannot divide life and the creation, it's impossible. Shut your eyes, close your ears, don't use your brain, use your heart, your soul."
–– Yohji Yamamoto (b. 1943), Japanese fashion designer
"Life is continual creation, i.e. the formation of new, higher forms ... When existing forms are destroyed, this only means a new form is taking shape, invisible to us. We see what is outside us, but we don't see what is within us ... A caterpillar sees itself shrivel up, but doesn't see the butterfly which flies out of it."
–– Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer
via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 51.
