Quotes About Creation

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

One works without thinking how to work.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.