Carl Jung on Creative Vision
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
"The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have 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. 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."
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
“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.”
"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."
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."