Quotes About Creation

Que me den algo que hacer, lo que sea! Sería preferible que pensara en otra cosa, porque en este momento estoy por representarme la comedia. Sé muy bien que no quiero hacer nada; hacer algo es crear existencia, y ya hay bastante existencia.

Unser Leben hängt davon ab, was wir aus dem machen, was aus uns gemacht wurde.

Faire souffrir c'est posséder et créer tout autant que détruire.

Faire, et en faisant se faire et n'être rien que ce qu'on fait

I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

Mais comme mes regards tombaient sur le bloc de feuilles blanches, je fus saisi par son aspect et je restai, la plume en l'air, à contempler ce papier éblouissant : comme il était dur et voyant, comme il était présent. Il n'y avait rien en lui que du présent. Les lettres que je venais d'y tracer n'étaient pas encore sèches et déjà elles ne m'appartenaient plus.

To exist is to create your own life.

Roquentin wonders if he could do the same as the man who wrote the tune. Not in music, but in the realm of art. Not a history book, because that is about what has existed, and existence is pointless, is not necessary.

Antes de alguém viver, a vida, em si mesma, não é nada; é quem é a vive que deve dar-lhe um sentido; e o valor nada mais que constatar-se, assim, que é possível criar uma comunidade humana.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.