Quotes About Creation

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

The temple of art is built in words.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

I make records so I can buy art.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.