Quotes About Creation

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Art is a fruit that grows in man.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born, I have confidence in it (automatic painting). I do not think about it. The forms arrive pleasant, or strange, hostile, inexplicable, mute, or drowsy. They are born from themselves. It seems to me as if all I do is move my hands.

We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit and does not itself reproduce. We want to produce directly and without meditation. As there is not the least trace of abstraction in this art, we will call it concrete art.

Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature.

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Le fabricateur souverain nous créa besaciers tous de même manière, tant ceux du temps passé que du temps d'aujourd'hui : Il fit pour nos défauts la poche de derrière, Et celle de devant pour les défauts d'autrui.

La belleza es pura secreción de la cultura como los cálculos lo son del riñón

È così, ad esempio, che è appena nata la sedia elettrica: da una controcampagna pubblicitaria.

It's amazing that God lavishes so much attention to detail in a body that won't last, but He does that everywhere: in that tiny, delicate, finely veined alpine flower that quivers in the mountain chill and then fades and dies, as well as in my body. I am a wonder!

J'étais de toute éternité et je suis né afin de pouvoir enfin m'anéantir.

What we need is hatred, from it our ideas are born

Il dressa en face de mes yeux une de ces musiques à bouche qu'on achète dans les foires : du fer et du bois.

O Dieu, si tu veux que jamais plus femme n'élève la voix, crée enfin un homme adulte!

She doesn't scream, but she groans and the sounds she makes are beyond the pain and work of labor, beyond human—or even animal—life. They are the sounds that move the earth, the sounds that give voice to the deep, violent fissures in the bark of the redwoods. They are the sounds of splitting cells, of bonding atoms, the sounds of the waxing moon and the forming stars.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

His nudes and his roses declared to men of this century, already deep in their task of destruction, the stability of the eternal balance of nature.

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.