Creation Quotes

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

The work is the work. The work is not me.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

The object of Art is to give life a shape.

Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

Ideas are the source of all things

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

Those who don't build must burn.

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

I make pop culture.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

Those who create are hard of heart.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story - not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.

There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before its manifestation and then joyously watch the unfolding as, piece by piece by piece, it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Man has created death.

Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you desire.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.