Creation Quotes

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. (George Bernard Shaw)
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. View quote
Willa Cather
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. View quote
Carl Jung
The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation! View quote
Jonathan Larson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. View quote
Brian May
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. View quote
Henry Moore
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. View quote
Norman Mailer
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. (Matthew Arnold)
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. View quote
James Baldwin
The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos. View quote
Hayao Miyazaki
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. View quote
Robert Bridges
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. (Giorgio Vasari)
A photo is a creation. View quote
Eva Herzigova
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property. View quote
Maurice Allais
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. View quote
Cicero
Any one thing in the creation is suffiocient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. View quote
Epictetus