Quotes About Creation

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how they talk. I kind of created them out of my own personality. They are all me.

Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

I'm just trying to give the world something pure for a change. We'll see what happens.

With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.

People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the two because they are both pure agony.

I've always aimed to create something pure.

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

When I listen to our first album now, I can hear the purity of the oneness of leaving all earthly things aside to come together and create something. It's quite marvelous.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

The purpose creates the machine.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.

I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.