Rollo May and creativity

Rollo May writes insightful about the importance of the creative act of dealing with form

In his book The Courage to Create points to the dialectical relationship between form and subjective content. Form shapes your suggestive experience without making them less subjective. The external nature of the form, that it is pre-determined allows me to explore it freely:

Our discussion of form demonstrates something else — that the object you see is a product both of your subjectivity and external reality. The form is born out of a dialectical relation between my brain (which is subjective, in me) and the object that I see external to me (which is objective). As Immanuel Kant insisted, we not only know the world, but the world at the same time conforms to our ways of knowing. Incidentally, note the word conform &mdash the world forms itself “with,” it takes on our forms. (p. 119)

May, Rollo (1994). The Courage to Create, WW Norton.