Quotes About Creation

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.

I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.

I know that the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.