Quotes About Creation

My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

The way I build stuff in my mind, it's sort of like a puzzle for me. I always talk about it like, when I'm writing a scene there's a certain feeling I'm trying to create. I'll have my list of scenes and it's more like feelings, these notes I want to hit.

That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it.

The goal of content marketing is to create content that people actually want to read/view. If you're being blatantly promotional, there's a good chance your content marketing efforts are falling flat.

Our silhouettes are quite classic, and the fit is very flattering. I just try to create something beautiful that complements the wearer.

My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.

I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

Because the Internet is a medium, it doesn't care whether it transmits love or hate. It is what we build and who we are that make it what it is. We can build things that diminish our humanity or build things that bring us to human flourishing.

Some of the music I made for 'Fantastic Damage' I thought I was making for the Company Flow album, but the majority of it was post-Company Flow.

When you're putting together a concept album, it's all about the flow and the story.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.