pure creation Quotes

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.

The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.

Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.

Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have to say, "I don't know. I just don't know." Yet still you'll have to decide. And so you'll have to choose. You'll have to make an arbitrary choice. Such a choice - a decision coming from no previous personal knowledge - is called pure creation. And the individual is aware, deeply aware, that in the making of such decisions is the Self created.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that.

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.

You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. So create who and what you are, and then experience that.