Paracelsus Quotes

Art is a self-replicating force.

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Colors were dynamite for us.

I've seen a tremendous shift especially in indie comics. I see all these young women who are out there creating. They're making these great web comics. Their graphic novels are getting published. They're making all this wonderful art. They're powerful. There's this vital energy about it that's really, really beautiful that years ago I knew existed but I didn't see so clearly.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe.

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.