Quotes About An Artist's Creation

#1. Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell. - Author: Marc Ecko

#2. Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you. - Author: Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

#3. Rather the artist's delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of clouds and sky mirrored in a black lake of sadness. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. The artist's greatest creation began
the night he washed his memory of his failures
rubbed opium on his lips
drank the wine that women offered him
and lay down and wept. - Author: Roman Payne

#5. Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation ... Not all are destined to get there ... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation. - Author: Paul Klee

#6. 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. - Author: Al Alvarez

#7. There are 2 types of artist:
those who create for others in mind
those who create for themselves
either way, none are truly independent. - Author: Natasha Tsakos

#8. The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no. - Author: Gore Vidal

#9. The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. - Author: Anais Nin

#10. The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. - Author: Ezra Pound

#11. 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. - Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow. - Author: Sara Zarr

#13. Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#14. The first creation of every artist is getting carved from the best moments of his life!! - Author: Nelson Jack

#15. Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul. - Author: George Edward Woodberry

#16. 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. - Author: Vera Nazarian

#17. The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. - Author: Wassily Kandinsky

#18. Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being. - Author: Tobin Hart

#19. the artist can never quite get on terms with God, who as far as creation goes has got there first and pulled off a product hard to beat. - Author: Terry Eagleton

#20. For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone. - Author: Madeleine L'Engle

#21. The self is ... a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on. - Author: Rebecca Solnit

#22. Everything that's created remains as it was before it was created. The artist fetches it down from the heavens as a finished thing. Eternity has no beginning. Poetry or a Joke: the act of creation lies between what's self-evident and what is permanent - Author: Karl Kraus

#23. ... Any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity... - Author: Dean Koontz

#24. The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. - Author: Gustave Flaubert

#25. Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again. - Author: Richard Ashcroft

#26. A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone. - Author: Jane Harrison

#27. Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul. - Author: El Greco

#28. It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in. - Author: Julia Cameron

#29. It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect ... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation. - Author: Rollo May

#30. Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of no creative artist who employs them. They are, per se, restrictive; their use precludes any chance of adventuring in this interesting field. - Author: Walter J. Phillips

#31. We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make. - Author: Michael Gungor

#32. Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. - Author: Hans Hofmann

#33. An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must. - Author: Christopher Fry

#34. There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation. - Author: Patrick Rothfuss

#35. Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself. - Author: Herb Goldberg

#36. Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern. - Author: Luci Shaw

#37. The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist ... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings. - Author: Plato

#38. My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration. - Author: M. Ward

#39. 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. - Author: Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#40. We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It's our school, our playground, our artist's studio. I beleive that we're here to master the process of creation - to learn how to consciously channel the creative energy of spirit into physical form. - Author: Shakti Gawain

#41. Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful. - Author: Alex Grey

#42. Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. - Author: Joel-Peter Witkin

#43. God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. - Author: Miguel Angel Ruiz

#44. He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death. - Author: Irving Stone

#45. Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self. - Author: Madeleine L'Engle

#46. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon - Author: Jaeda DeWalt

#47. The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation. - Author: Laurence Boldt

#48. In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure ... - Author: Madeleine L'Engle

#49. The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. - Author: Auguste Rodin

#50. Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist. - Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

#51. Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. - Author: Don Miguel Ruiz

#52. The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone. - Author: Andre Malraux

#53. When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain. - Author: Criss Jami

#54. It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind ... we're in it together. - Author: Chick Corea

#55. As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person. - Author: Psy

#56. Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art. - Author: Henri Matisse

#57. You are part human, and an artist. Creation is your power. - Author: A.G. Howard

#58. My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#59. If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself? - Author: Miguel Ruiz

#60. The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails - Author: James Joyce

#61. In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities. - Author: Chris Campanioni

#62. Your creation was the god's way of showing humans that, the artist in him is still alive. - Author: Akshay Vasu

#63. The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. - Author: Ezra Pound

#64. Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there? - Author: Paul Klee

#65. Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from. - Author: Emile Galle

#66. An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that 'begging bowl' to which the gift is drawn. - Author: Lewis Hyde

#67. I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other. - Author: Marcel Duchamp

#68. None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands. - Author: Pope John Paul II

#69. The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. - Author: James Joyce