Creativity is the greatest form of rebellion there is.
If you want to create, you must free yourself from all conditioning, otherwise your creativity will be nothing but an imitation. just a duplicate... you can only be creative if you are an individual; if you depend on mass psychology, you cannot create. Mass psychology is devoid of creativity, it lives a secondhand life, it knows no dance, no song, no joy; it is a life of automatons.
[...] Those who create cannot follow the straight and narrow, they must find their own way, they must cut a path through the jungle of life, they must go forward alone, and be outcasts from the crowd, from collective psychology.
The mass mentality is the lowest mentality in the world; even so-called idiots are far superior to the idiocy of the collective mentality. But the collective has its techniques of corruption: it respects and honors a person if they keep insisting that the direction of the collective mentality is the only right path.
In the past, those who created in every field—painters, dancers, musicians, poets, sculptors—had to give up respectability out of sheer necessity: They were forced to live a bohemian life, a life of wanderers: it was the only way to be creative.
In the future this will no longer be necessary.
If you understand me, if you feel that what I say is the truth, in the future everyone will be able to live out their individuality, and there will be no need to lead a bohemian life. [...]
My effort is to destroy the collective mentality and make every individual free to be themselves. Then there will be no problem, you will be able to live as you wish.
Humanity will truly be born only on the day when the individual's rebellion is respected. Humankind has not yet been born, it is still living in the womb. What appears to you to be humankind is merely a false phenomenon.[...]
Humanity needs new soil, the soil of freedom. Bohemia was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision gains a following, there will no longer be any bohemia, because there will no longer be any so-called collective mentality trying to dominate people. At that point everyone will live at peace with themselves. [...]
Only then will there be creativity.
Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.
Osho - A Perfect Imperfection