Quotes About Creation

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

For art to be art it has to cure.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.