Quotes About Creation

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.