Quotes about Creation
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
— Pablo Picasso
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
— Edmund Burke
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
— Audre Lorde
A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
— Paul Johnson
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
— Samuel Johnson
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
— Olivia Newton-John
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
— Michelangelo
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
— Pablo Picasso
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
— Ayn Rand
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
— Marcus Aurelius
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for thou out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, for dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
— John Milton
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
— Oscar Wilde