1,364 Quotes About Creation

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

Artists are not in delusion, they only recreate the hidden side

For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his fantasies by expressing them. Instead, by some perverse logic of creation, the act of formal expressions may simply make the dredged-up material more readily available to him.

I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.

Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life.

Artists are forever trying to create love.

Good art originates not from the desire to show off but from the desire to show yourself. Good art always comes from our desperate desire to breathe, to be seen, to be loved. In everyday life, we are used to seeing only the shiny outer layer of folks. Art makes us less lonely because it always comes from the desperate center of the artists- and each of our centers is separate. That's why good art is such a relief.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.