Quotes About Creation

A work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity. In this nature of its origin lies the judgment of it: there is no other.

Everything is gestation and then bringing forth.

Perhaps you do carry within yourself the possibility forming and creating, as a particularly happy and pure way of living.

Don't you see how everything that happens is always a beginning again, and could it not be His beginning, given that beginnings are in themselves always so beautiful?

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

A work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity.

For the creator must be a world for himself and find everything in himself and in Nature to whom he has attached himself.

Para el verdadero creador no hay pobreza ni lugares comunes. Y aunque se encontrase encerrado en una prisión cuyos muros impidieran que el fragor del mundo alcanzase su entendimiento, ¿no podría recurrir siempre a su infancia, ese reino delicioso, esa cámara del tesoro que alberga tantos recuerdos?

I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.

A piece of art is good if it is born of necessity. This, its source, is its criterion; there is no other.

If the heart longs for nothing but to be new and unlimited, the world is instantly the same as on the day of its creation and infinite.

A work of art is good if it is arisen out of necessity

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside

We create the race by creating ourselves and then to our great astonishment we will have created something far more important: We will have created a culture. Why waste time creating a conscience for something that doesn't exist? For, you see, blood and skin do not think!

As the advertising industry, which is dedicated to the creation of masks, makes clear, that which cannot gain authority from tradition may borrow it with a mask.

Can I say in twenty minutes what was building twenty-one years and ended in twenty seconds?

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Build therefore your own world.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Every word was once a poem.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.