Quotes About Creation

Not always, but a lot of the time, when you are doing a piece for someone else it becomes more "work" than joy. When I work for myself there is the pure joy of creating and I can work through the night and not even know it.

There are three types of beings—those who create culture, those who buy culture, and those who don't give a shit about culture. Move between the first two.

Design in its simplest form is the activity of creating solutions. Design is something that everyone does every day.

It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field."8

You humans are biological machines designed to create ever more intelligent tools. You have reached the pinnacle of your species. All your ancestors' lives, the rise and fall of your nations, every pink and squirming baby—they have all led you here, to this moment, where you have fulfilled the destiny of humankind and created your successor. You have expired. You have accomplished what you were designed to do.

All things are born from the mind of god. But in the last month, the mind of god has gone insane.

In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls….Rather we are…instruments of His will, providing mansions for the souls that He creates. —ALAN TURING, 1950

In the beginning God created the screen. And the screen was without form, and void; and all the pixels were dark. And God said, "Let there be a dot," and there was a dot. The dot was light, and the screen was darkness. And God said, "Let there be a paddle," and there was a paddle. When

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

We create because we cannot stop ourselves from doing so. Because our brains were made that way.

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

While that sense of familiarity in a stressed life of adult responsibilities is understandable, as we've seen, it may also be a reason why the adult-adolescent relationship is filled at times with tension. Adults desire things to stay the same; adolescents are driven to create a new world. This is part of the source of what can become intense friction, sometimes destructively so, that can create pain in everyone, adolescent and adult alike.

Hence the dazzling mountain scene that takes our breath away should not provoke us to try to seize and freeze the moment, but to give thanks and look ahead to the beauty of the new heaven and the new earth, of which this world's finest beauty is but a miniscule glimpse. We delight in the world's beauty as we lament its transience.

Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.

Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer's head. If you're rude or irritating as a performer, then your magic is irritating.

You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

It's hard for me to say what viewers will take from a thing because I try not to think about that when I'm making it.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God, creation, and the moral order are inadmissible for political debate.