Quotes About Creation

I literally shaped a lot of the land in Vermont in different ways.

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

You always want to be innovating and creating what's next. Versatility is also really important for a producer.

The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are written with intentions of being a song, and then all of a sudden the main riff of this song, six months later turns into a verse or a chorus of another song.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.

We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't the same gender.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

Four lines on a white paper, a splash of blood, together that makes a beautiful memory.

Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

The genius of Proust is the totality of the works of Proust

Wir haben nicht bloß unser Land, wir haben unsere Welt verloren - und damit die Möglichkeit, an die Unschlud jener Welt zu glauben, die wir geschaffen haben, einer Welt, der wir nicht entkommen können, für die wir nur Verantwortung übernehmen können und deren Wiederherstellung wir versuchen müssen.

There is no threat to you in the paper, or in the pen, there's no threat in your creation, they welcome you.

Any product, service, or piece of technology that you acquire comes with instructions, options, and features that someone else – an engineer – designed before it ever made its way to you.

And if so, I could fill my time with the new entry on my rather exclusive social register, whoever had created the Howling Vegetable of N.W. 4th Street, and the fact that this sounded rather like a Sherlock Holmes title made it no less urgent.

Art was creating something new, not mimicking something already in existence. What

Hm. How about jewelry? Do they make jewelry out of lava?" None of them had ever heard of that

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Sixty trillion years ago a god-scientist dug a hole through the earth, filled it with dynamite and blew the earth in two. The smaller of these two pieces became the moon.

She didn't surrender until after Japan had. Then, from their wedding night onward (according to what my brother told my covered ears), my parents made love regularly and enjoyably. When it came to having children, however, my mother had her own ideas. It was her belief that an embryo could sense the amount of love with which it had been created. For this reason, my father's suggestion didn't sit well with her.