Quotes About Creation

The first act is writing, the second act is filming, the third act is releasing. If you have to partake in the third act, it hurts the first act of the next one. It's like a prizefight. You get punched.

My favorite thing is a brand-new project from scratch because you really never know how they're going to come to life. Going back for the third and fourth time to old ones is very gratifying, but it's not my favorite use of my creativity.

We built 'Jade Empire,' then we built 'Mass Effect,' then we built 'Dragon Age.' With those last two, when you're dealing with two big ideas that are on their third iterations, you develop some strategies for managing your lore, or you drown!

When I was in eighth grade, I created a Backstreet Boys fan site. I came in third place in a fan site contest and got to meet them.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

It doesn't really exist; it's just basically lots of different stages between the two pieces, and you end up with, like, a third shape that doesn't exist but is suggested to you by the image.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.