Arne Jacobsen Quotes

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

I believe in creative work.