Quotes About Creation

The Apple mentality is really about creating focus, quality and a voice that people understand and can relate to.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.

It's always exciting to create a character that people can relate to, where people are like, 'Oh, I know this dude,' but maybe you've never actually seen this type of character on TV.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.

I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

Some days are more intense and quiet, and then other days, you feel more relaxed and are able to open up on set. It just depends on what you're doing that day. I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene.

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.

I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

I can't express how wonderful it is to get feedback when you've been sort of in a bubble working on something and then you release it to the world and hope for the best. It's like the birth of a musical baby.

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.

I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that once we make a thing and release it, my turn to talk is done. Ideally, you're saying everything you want to say in the product you're making, and you don't have to add commentary to it afterwards.