Quotes About Creation

I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

Art is what is irresistible.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Everything I do is the environment.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

You are the artist and the art.

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.