Quotes About Creation

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

We work and that is godlike.

Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

For 'Minecraft,' it actually started with an isometric strategy game.