Quotes About Creation

My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused the world to be, and it seems to me that these stories of creation myth, adopted by different cultures - most of them are less insightful than the stories made up by individual poets and writers.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

I don't think my voice has changed very much when it comes to things that I create. It's just my perspective, my point of view, and I guess that really hasn't changed very much. Luckily, it hasn't had to change in order for me to work.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

For the most part, romance is written in third person, and it's written in multiple points of view, so you're in the hero's head, and you're in the heroine's head. I've always said that I'm more of a narrator than a creator.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

It is about getting into the box more, being more clinical, the final pass. It is about really putting that pressure on myself to be someone who creates.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

God created me. And the closest I will ever get with God is this soul, this body. And if I don't have myself, if I don't listen to myself, if I don't trust myself, then I don't trust God, because God created me.

The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection with God is you. He created you. That is the ultimate connection you have with God is you.

I wanted to create clothing that I would wear - that I truly want to wear - but which would also fit my active lifestyle.

A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef.

I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know?

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

I remember thinking that 'Earthworms' wasn't really an 'album' to me, only because it felt like a weird collection of songs more than an actual project.

The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang.

Nothing can come of nothing.

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.