Quotes About Creation

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.

...if I can do it, it's not art.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart

art is never finished, only abandoned

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."