Carl Jung - From the Artists category:

As a human being the artist may have many moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense – he is 'collective man' – one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic life of mankind. (Carl Jung)

Colors express the main psychic functions of man. (Carl Jung)

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. (Carl Jung)

-on Pablo Picasso...A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music. (Carl Jung)

Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health. (Carl Jung)

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.' (Carl Jung)

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. Great energy springs from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. (Carl Jung)

Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth.The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. (Carl Jung)

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination? (Carl Jung)

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. (Carl Jung)

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. (Carl Jung)

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Carl Jung)

We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace. (Carl Jung)

Nothing has a stronger influence on their children than the unlived lives of their parents. (Carl Jung)

Man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites – day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. If it were not so, existence would come to an end. (Carl Jung)

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. (Carl Jung)

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. (Carl Jung)

The least of things with a meaning is worth more than the greatest of things without it. (Carl Jung)

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. (Carl Jung)

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. (Carl Jung)

The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' – to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual... (Carl Jung)

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)

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, which belongs also to the child, and as such it appears to be inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. (Carl Jung)

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. (Carl Jung)

The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. (Carl Jung)

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose within him. (Carl Jung)

Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer. (Carl Jung)

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Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. (Carl Jung)

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy. (Carl Jung)

There is no birth of consciousness without pain. (Carl Jung)

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. (Carl Jung)

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. (Carl Jung)

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. (Carl Jung)

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. (Carl Jung)

“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

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."- Carl Gustav Jung

‘We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.’

— Eric Hoffer

Lecture: Dreams: Improvisation in Life and MusicJoin us for an unforgettable evening as acclaimed violinist and author Stephen Nachmanovitch and Jungian psychologist Jerry Ruhl explore the meaning and imaginative possibilities of dreams. Dreams have been called the royal road to the unconscious. We will discover the creative and healing possibilities of essential dream motifs, including houses, death, flying, paralysis, and being chased. As we focus on each motif, Stephen will create musical improvisations on the viola d'amare for these experiences of the night, and we will learn useful dream tools to help us appreciate and listen to the wisdom of the dream.

Workshop: Trusting Creativity, Nourishing CommunityHow does creative expression - even the most solitary, seemingly private act - change and enrich our communities? Most creative acts do not end in products that would win prizes or awards. But all still carry some spiritual essence of communication, and even those that are never seen by others change us in ways that deepen our capacity to communicate and engage with others.

Through lecture, discussion, and activities, we will experience the vital importance of creative play in our lives. Play is a divine quality that we

can bring to anything, an attitude and a presence rather than a defined activity. To be vibrantly alive in the moment we need to be alert to the power of limits and mistakes and to trust our own inherent ability to create. And we need to embrace not only the personally healing potential of creativity, but also the ways in which it is necessary for the growth and enduring health of the communities that sustain us.