Creation Quotes

“I want to make a music that is not a reflection of me, but a reflection of the world.”

“The future is not a place we are going to, but one we are creating.”

“The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make it again.”

“It's easy to be a critic. It's much harder to be a creator.”

“Light is the first of things.”

“The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too.”

“We are the creators of the new world. We are the masters of our own lives.”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

“For the making of a ballad, a people, not a poet, is required.”

“God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.”

“I see my work as a continuous cycle of construction and destruction.”

“The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.”

“When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole.”

“The future is not a place we are going to, but a place we are creating.”

“I danced in the morning when the world was begun, And I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun.”

“I have this toothache of a desire to make a painting that is all of a piece, a single thing.”

“There is a deep satisfaction in making things grow.”

“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”

“The hands are the most human part of the man.”

“Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas.”