Quotes About Creation

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

When it comes to creation, I am open. However, I am extremely picky when it comes to who I create with.

Details create the big picture.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

My life - it's a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

If God is real, and he did give a piece of Himself to us, it is our brain.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.