Virginia Woolf Quotes

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

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.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

I doubted Black-ish , and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter if a writer wrote it for you. He could've written it with you in mind. But TV is a collaborative art. It involves producers, networks, studios, and many people signing off on you. And a lot of times there are deals in place - actors with studios that they're looking for shows for.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.