Quotes About Creation

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

The aim of art is to create space.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.