Quotes About Creation

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

To desire a state is to have it.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.