Quotes About Creation

I'm always most comfortable in the studio. It's my comfort zone. I love being there, and I love making records.

I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone.

You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don't think about whether it's gonna start controversy or whatever. Sometimes you just write and you're in the zone.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

God alone can finish.

To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose; Strange his first sleep would be his last repose.

Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

The flowering of geometry.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Pioneers did not produce original works of art, because they were creating original human environments; they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, colored mutability!-Life in the making?

Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.