Quotes About Creation

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.

Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

..... your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating