Quotes About Creation

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Art destroys silence.

Drawing is the true test of art.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

Don't think about making art.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Art for me is like breathing.