Quotes About Creation

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.