"The need to create is certainly one of the most powerful
instincts in all human beings. Why? Because human beings are
called to be like their heavenly Father. And if they do not wish
to give birth to children, they can give birth to works of art.
Art is one of the signs that the wish to become a creator is not
limited to creating children, to reproducing merely for the
preservation of the species: it expresses itself as a need to
reach further, to always find new, more beautiful and more
accomplished forms.
The creative power in human beings dwells higher than the level
of their ordinary consciousness. It is found in a part of their
soul that acts at that moment as an antenna, with the ability to
explore and contemplate realities far beyond them and to capture
elements of these realities. Only when human beings are capable
of going beyond themselves, of surpassing themselves, can they
claim to be creating."
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
