All ANAIS NIN 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.”
“Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.”
“The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.”
“Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.”
“The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.”

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