Creation Quotes

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

“I try to make concrete that which is abstract.”

“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.”

“I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for.”

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

“The universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.”

“I’ve always been obsessed with the process of making things.”

“Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.”

“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”

“I work hard. I'm a workaholic. It's what I do.”

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

“How manifold it is, what thou hast made! They are hidden from the face of man.”

“A poem is a living being.”

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

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

“A true work of art can only be created by one who is in a state of grace.”

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

“Thought creates the world and then says 'I didn't do it'.”

“Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.”

“It is the subject that is fascinating. I'm not interested in recording the facts. I'm interested in creating an image.”