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Quotes About Creation

All art is concerned with coming into being.
~ Aristotle
The divine art is the story.
~ Isak Dinesen
That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.
~ James Ransone
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
~ Kanye West
Making art is a journey.
~ Meinrad Craighead
Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.
~ Unknown
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
There's no art where there's no fee.
~ Aristophanes
An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently
~ David Antin
Self-creation is the highest art.
~ David Zindell
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Reveal art; conceal the artist.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Art should be born from the materials.
~ Jean Dubuffet
A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.
~ Lee Hammond
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.
~ Morton Feldman
Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.
~ Unknown
No art comes from the conscious mind.
~ Steve Martin
We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
~ Marilyn French
I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
~ Adrienne Rich
Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
~ Andy Rooney
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
~ Anne Roiphe