Quotes About Creation

Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.

The idea for 'Ballet Baby' started when I was going through my own pregnancy.

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.

My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.

You know, I don't think pregnant women or new mothers get enough credit for what it takes to physically create a child.

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth.

I binge write, basically. I do a lot of prep, research, setup. I'll have a pretty detailed outline. Sort of like a beat outline. And then I'll add little notes and dialogue ideas, and I'll just create a 20-page document.

When I create a character, I do it with the directors, and I take their notes and try to have my notes meet in a common ground. I don't create characters myself, and I don't really think that's my job. I'm not a prep person at all - plus, I'm just a lazy procrastinator.

When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.

The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.

The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.

With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.

I like Bill a lot. As Bill is presented, I mean you don't ever see Bill blow her head off? You know? And I think what Quentin has done is he created a monster.

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.