Quotes About Creation

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I work on drawing as a final product.

I believe in creative work.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, 'notwithstanding,' in the long run remakes the world.

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

Every work of art is about everything.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

Hard work is not the path to Well- Being. Feeling good is the path to Well-Being. You don't create through action; you create through vibration. And then, your vibration calls action from you.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

When you can't create you can work

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.