Quotes About Creation

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

I produce but I'm producing work that I can be in.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Having a book is actually like a great master - helping to build a universe and unify work - especially in my pictures where there is such a strong signature, yet with a set of rigorous rules to it.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.

Obviously, I don't make an entire edition all at once, so the studio often goes back to produce editions, but that's a bit different. I guess I'm always thinking about the next work.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.