Quotes About Creation

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

For some, Into The Gloss is just a blog, and that's cool. For us, it's the connective tissue between us and you, and that has paved the way for the creation of a very different kind of beauty brand: Glossier.

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

The truth of the matter is coming up with a title is one of the most challenging things we do.

I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

I've always wanted to title an album 'Illinois.' I wrote the song, which was a very special song to me. The song isn't exactly about being from there, even though I am.

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.

You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.

To be honest, I came up with the Carmella character completely on my own.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.

My first character was Mr. Toad.