1,364 Quotes About Creation

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

El concepto de arte comprometido es una ingenuidad porque nadie sabe del todo lo que ejecuta.(The notion of art as a compromise is a simplification, for no one knows entirely what they are doing.)

What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face could be born.

The sincere reaction to making meaningful art is often speechlessness. We make art about what we cannot understand through any other method. The finished product is like a pearl, complete and beautiful, but mute about itself. The writer has given us this piece of his interior and there is frequently no explanation, nothing to be said about it. Often, the writer himself has very little idea of what he has created.

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

Art is the bloom that makes life bearable

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

Does the human brain create its own reality? It is correct that everybody lives in their own reality bubble. But to be more precise. Reality is one, bubbles are many. At any time, there is only oneself leaving space between itself so not to be by itself. What does it mean? Self has created the bodymind complex so not to be by itself. The purpose of self is companionship. Love so Love.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.