Quotes About Creation

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

Art is born of humiliation.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar; for no mortal being was ever more completely divested of the trammels of the personal and the particular, none ever practiced with more consummated success the divine art of impartiality

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts" .

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.

The masters according to Nietzsche are the untimely, those who create, who destroy in order to create, not to preserve. Nietzsche says that under the huge earth-shattering events are tiny silent events, which he likens to the creation of new worlds: there once again you see the presence of the poetic under the historical.

To write is to struggle and resist; to write is to become; to write is to draw a map: 'I am a cartographer'.

What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

desiring-production is one and the same thing as social production

the canvas is never empty

She simply makes things a reality by assuming they are such.

You two worshipful, adoring assholes created that thing down the hall and set her loose on the world.

I created a manuscript, and she created a life. I

The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.

Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which there is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves.

The medieval mind assumed that the rational God created a rational universe and that human beings, made in the image of God, were rational as well and could understand the universe.

Oh, God, You have given me a vacant soul, an untaught conscience, a life of clay. Put Your big hands around mine and guide my hands as a teacher guides the childish fingers that hold their first crayon, so that everytime I make a mark on this life, it will be Your mark. When my hands mold this clay, may the impressions be, in reality, made by the movement of Your hands and directed by Your perfect thoughts.