Add Quote by Pearl S. Buck

“Something terrible happens to people who don't create, something poisonous. Creating is a necessity for all humans, like breathing. If you don't do it,…

— K.A. Laity

“The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an…

— John Burroughs

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

— Johannes Tauler

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

— Albert Camus

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in…

— Anonymous

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

— Paul Goodman

I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.

— Mariko Mori

He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way…

— Gautama Buddha

“Man is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body…

— Ernest Becker