Quotes About Creation

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.

Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward us. Why not step forward and greet it.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.