Quotes About Creation

I'll always love the time I spent making 'Black and White.'

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

Alchametic magic is 'How do I create something out of nothing purely through manifesting my will through power and light, which is value.' That's white magic. That's alchametic magic.

Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

The creation of God itself, I deduced, came from our primal fear.

I think walking is a little more primal than art-making.

I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

When I was designing my clothing line, I would find a print that I love and then decide what to make with it.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.