Quotes About Creation

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, 'What is it?' In that moment art can be created.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

We make art out of our loss.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Where the material ends, art begins.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.