Jacob Bronowski Quotes

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.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

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

I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

Some people like to paint and sing. We like to create and build.

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

My way to think about creation is like the end of the world. I love confusion. So music and image, picture, fabrics, people, person, talk: That's my way to work. And food. And perfumes. I love perfumes. And flowers and plants, and dresses and vintage.

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.