Quotes About Creation

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

Originating something is what every actor waits for. Usually, those opportunities are offered to people who already have a name.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

You just wake up and make music.

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

I like to enter my characters through a physical form first. The first thing I find is the regime of the character - when he wakes up tomorrow, what activities does this person engage in - that's my entry point. Once I get that, then it becomes easy for me.

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

If you discourage saving and investment, that means you're walking in the opposite direction of job creation. You're discouraging good job creation and job growth.

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.

It's such a fun experience getting to kind of create something from nothing with your best friend.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

I think if you've got a guy who can create his own shot then you're better off than not.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

When I came to El Bulli, right away I knew I was becoming part of something incredible. It was like watching the Big Bang happening right in front of me.

Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?

The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make.