Quotes About Creation

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

What I'm good at is making art.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

The great artist takes what he needs.

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

You really can't bring about anything new with art

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.