Quotes About Creation

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.

We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

God never made his work for man to mend.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.