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Quotes About Creation

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
~ David Mamet
Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.
~ David Rees
No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.
~ Derek R. Audette
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
~ Diane Paulus
I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.
~ Douglas Adams
Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.
~ Elizabeth Ashley
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Art without heart is craft.
~ Unknown
Making reality real is art's responsibility.
~ Eudora Welty
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
The artist is called a creator.
~ George Henry Lewes
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
~ Georges Braque
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
~ Harold Rosenberg
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
~ Harry Callahan
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
~ Hector Tobar
fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.
~ Helen McCloy
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
~ Henri Matisse
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.
~ Henri Matisse
Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.
~ Holly Near
It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.
~ J. Cole
And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.
~ James Kelman