Quotes About Creation

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray.

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes from drawing.

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

I enjoyed reading Batman, and Superman, and all the super ones, but I never wished I created them. I've got to let there be some work for other people!