Quotes About Creation

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

In '92, I got my first Broadway show as a performer - 'Crazy for You.' I was in the ensemble. In fact, I was in eight Broadway shows as a dancer. Seven of them were original shows. That's how I learned to create something from the ground up.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

What I do is create images, period.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.

I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.

I grew up watching my father work, and learning from him what good quality is. I took from him the passion to create beautiful and exclusive products. He also taught me to persevere if I want to reach my goals.