“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”
Anais Nin
“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.”
Albert Einstein
“The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails”
James Joyce
“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.”
Marcel Proust
“Our artists are very good technicians. They have sensibility and artistic balance. But quite often they lack in creation. I have one artist here in my studio in New York. She's a good painter, but she has problems of creating her own stuff, of inventing. She can copy from a postcard, but when she has to do other things she has a tough time. She knows it. Not everybody can do great things.”
Christopher Moore
“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty.”
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