Quotes About Creation

Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into… rhetoric and plot.

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby.

I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have invisible spirit benefactors who believe in me, and who labor alongside me. The fact that I am here at all is evidence that I have the right to be here. I have a right to my own voice and a right to my own vision. I have a right to collaborate with creativity, because I myself am a product and a consequence of Creation.

The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties. She was making something

Q: What is creativity? A: The relationship between a human being and the mysteries of inspiration.

What does any of that have to do with the quiet glory of merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations?

The old cobbler had believed in something he called "the signature of all things"—namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of our Creator's love.

Dal centro della mia vita venne una grande fontana… "From the center of my life, there came a great fountain…

Boris Pasternak described this phenomenon beautifully, when he wrote, "No genuine book has a first page.

Keep in mind that for most of history people just made things, and they didn't make such a big freaking deal out of it.

It matters./It doesn't matter. Build space in your head for this paradox. Build as much space for it as you can. Build even more space. You will need it. And then go deep within that space—as far in as you can possibly go—and make absolutely whatever you want to make. It's

Nature provides the seed; man provides the garden; each is grateful for the other's help.

There is a quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.

Your own reasons to create are reason enough.

If you dare to create something and put it out there, after all, then it may accidentally stir up a response. That's the natural order of life: the eternal inhale and exhale of action and reaction. But you are definitely not in charge of the reaction—even when that reaction is flat-out bizarre.

Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby. Everything I have ever written has brought me into being. Every project has matured me in a different way. I am

Most individuals have never had enough time, and they've never had enough resources, and they've never had enough support or patronage or reward . . . and yet still they persist in creating. They persist because they care. They persist because they are called to be makers, by any means necessary.