Quotes About Creation

What matters our creative endless toil, When at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil? 'It is by-gone' - How shall the riddle run? As good as if things never had begun, Yet circle back, existence to possess: I'd rather have eternal Emptiness.

This is another one of those creatures whom, like the pelican, I have fed with the blood of my own heart... There were special circumstances close at hand, urgent, troubling me, and they resulted in the state of mind that produced Werther. I had lived, loved, and suffered much... That's what it was.

Doar ce creeaza clipa, se dovedeste bun.

Not Art and Science serve, alone; Patience must in the work be shown. Long is the calm brain active in creation; Time, only, strengthens the fine fermentation.

Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.