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Quotes About Creation

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.
~ Lady Margaret Sackville
God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.
~ Leopold Kronecker
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
~ Madeleine L'Engle
There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.
~ Mark Ryden
How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
~ May Sarton
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.
~ Unknown
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
~ Paul Valery
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.
~ Unknown
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.
~ Ann Beattie
A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Sometimes I'll present a work to the public and listen to the responses-then pull it back, shape it, and put it back out.
~ Unknown
Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.
~ Linda Chavez
I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.
~ Unknown
My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.
~ Philip K. Dick
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.
~ Robert Breault
He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.
~ Robert Ellsberg
Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
~ Robert Frost