Oğuzhan Bulut

“What genuine painters do is to reveal the underlying psychological and spiritual conditions of their relationship to their world; thus in the works of a great painter we have a reflection of the emotional and spiritual condition of human beings in that period of history. If you wish to understand the psychological and spiritual temper of any historical period, you can do no better than to look long and searchingly at its art. For in the art the underlying spiritual meaning of the period is expressed directly in symbols. This is not because artists are didactic or set out to teach or to make propaganda; to the extend that they do, their power of expression is broken; their direct relations to the inarticulate, or, if you will, 'unconscious' levels of the culture is destroyed. They have the power to reveal the underlying meaning of any period precisely because the essence of art is the powerful and alive encounter between the artist and his or her world." (pg 52)”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

“It is the seeming contradiction that we must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

“The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

“By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create