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Quotes About Creation

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
~ John Guare
The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
~ John Milton
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
~ John Ruskin
Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
~ John Updike
I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.
~ Jon Gordon
I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.
~ Josh Smith
Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
~ Joyce Cary
It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
~ Karin Fossum
Poetry is God's work.
~ Katy Lederer
I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
~ Keith Urban
I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me
~ Kenneth Branagh
It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.
~ Kesh
The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.
~ Khoi Vinh
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day
~ Kofi Annan
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
~ Larry Wall
When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.
~ Lauren Groff
I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.
~ LeRoy Neiman
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
~ Lewis Mumford
Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.
~ Lin Yutang
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
~ Louise Erdrich
I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
~ Lukas Foss
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."
~ Madeleine L'Engle
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle