Quotes About Creation

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

A work of art is a confession.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.

What a piece of work is a man

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: "An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'"

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.