Quotes About Creation

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'.

It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.

God spent a little too much time on my nose.

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.