Quotes About Creation

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

For me, filming is always like delivery pains.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

I like to paint - I love arts and crafts.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

I create music; I create painting; I create whatever I want to create. I create, what you say, clothes. I create, I don't know, dance move. I create anything.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.