Quotes About Creation

What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

Damien, les poètes se sont trompés: est-ce l'esprit du mal qui est l'ange déchu? C'est celui de l'amour, qui, après le grand oeuvre, ne voulut pas quitter la terre, et, tandis que ses frères remontaient au ciel, laissa tomber ses ailes d'or en poudre aux pieds de la beauté qu'il avait créée.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn't going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.

The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I'm interested in people who make stuff, and I'm interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy.

When I have to score a film, I watch the movie first and then start thinking about it. And from that moment on, it is as if I were pregnant. I then have to deliver the child, so from that moment on, I think always about the music - even when I go to the grocery store, I think about it.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

There's a certain amount of pleasure in being able to create something and watch it grow.

As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored. Or 'Dirty Jobs' - that's even better!

'Okja' I don't think would have been made if Netflix hadn't made it. That, to me, is a much bigger thing than whether someone watches it on a big screen or a phone. Because it simply wouldn't have existed otherwise.

Music is art, and making watches is art, too.

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

I hope everyone enjoys watching 'The Good Dinosaur' as much as I did making it.

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.