Anais Nin Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

  Anais Nin

  Happiness, Knowledge, Fever

• The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

  Anais Nin

  Artist, Choices, Elements

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

• All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

  Anais Nin

  Broken, Effort, Connections

• You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Feelings, Wave

• Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

  Anais Nin

  People, Monsters, Creation

• The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Vision, Creation

• Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Imagination, Feelings

• The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

  Anais Nin

  Pain, Violence, Mystery

• Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Madness, Creation

  "Fire". Diary entries, October 18, 1936.

• The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

  Anais Nin

  Monsters, Transformation, Creation

• But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Dark, Moments

• I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.

  Anais Nin

  Strong, Next Day, Knowing

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

• In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

  Anais Nin

  Perfection, Creation, Possibility

  "Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anais Nin, 1995.

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

  Anais Nin

  Creativity, Creation, Core

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