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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.
Sometimes, you have to destroy something in order to build something better.
It's like in someways I've been trying to create without first destroying. Is such a concept possible? For too long I have feared myself, fear what I can create. In essence, I have feared creating myself.
Failure is a stripping away of the inessential.
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.
By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else ...
Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.
In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.
To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.
It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.
Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.
Our lives are scattered throughout with periods of unbelonging; in childhood, of course, and adolescence; but in adulthood too, when sudden loss (or gain) forces us to reassess things we believe immutable.
Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.
[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
Curving back within myself I create again and again.
Inanimate objects have a life of their own, especially when they are the daily companions of a living soul. Without that life, they take on a bleak, desolate appearance, like furniture piled up in a warehouse.
Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.
There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you're quit of them.
Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
In the world we live, we don't create or destroy- we just convert entities from one form to another. Loss and Sorrow too. If these are growing in your life- remember you are feeding them.
What you do not eliminate - you accumulate.
The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.
Sometimes you can't help but destroy the intricate things in life.
Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.
When a material body breaks it may be put together again. But when two human beings are divided, after a long separation, they never re-unite at the same place, and to the same time; for the mind is a living thing, and moment by moment it grows and changes.
objects can be fixed or replaced. But the feelings of loved ones are not so easily mended." Thr
The newborn; the growing; the strong-willed and pliant; the ailing; the dying; the weak and defiant; over the roof of a painter withdrawn first from the world, then his family, and down into a masterpiece that has, in the end, withdrawn from its creator;
The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality ... eventually only the core remains.
... the cardinal labor of composition, which is excision ...
Life unravels as it's lived. It can't be woven back together.
Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.
I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters
Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.
Creating is the means to breathe life into something that never was, could have been, or someday might be.
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. The
Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.
Nothing is created or destroyed in nature ...
If the creation is separated from the Creator, it dies.
One creates oneself.
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.
Life has a way of dismantling us, piece by piece and then allowing us to redesign ourselves, to keep the parts that work and discard those that no longer fit.
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
We are creating something tangible or creating excuses why we can't create.
To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
Beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't
All too often when we topple something hateful, rather than breaking it and starting afresh, we raise ourselves up in its place.
Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural.
I've been re-created by a designer who loves to recycle. My
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
To truly regenerate, to find what we are seeking, we must change from within.
Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of - stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper - won't last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance. What
To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.
People who feel empty never heal by merging with another incomplete person. On the contrary, two broken-winged birds coupled into one make for clumsy flight. No amount of patience will help it fly; and, ultimately, each must be pried from the other, and wounds separately splinted. The
I'm torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.
Definition, like poetry, is the project of revivifying the familiar. Making things we think we know seem newly strange. To estrange, according to Hegel, is requisite to practicing consciousness.
At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a meaningless act), but given to nothing, in its form of nothing, the form of something.
Dismantling the architecture of my discontent
Separation ... though effectual with people of certain humors, is apt to idealize the removed object with others; notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.
Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.
Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.
This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it ...
Impersonal things that dominate our time and imagination offer extravagant promises of control and knowledge. But they also squeeze all sense of mystery and wonder and reverence out of our lives.
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.
Sink, suffer, self-destruct
Rise stronger, reconstruct
Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire
Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call "dismantling delusion." I think that after I dismantle my female body, I can finally dismantle established lyric poems.
Change, the uninvited guest that destroys what once was.
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.
Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
Creativity is the antidote to destruction.
Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?
All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.
There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
We can destroy only as creators