Quotes About Creation

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

It's just nice to see something from paper come to life on the screen.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.

There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine, and I know what is going to come out of it.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

I already knew that I wanted to be involved in something that combined management and coding, so I wasn't coding all the time. And I don't want to be in a management position, where that's all I'm doing, and I'm not able to participate in the creation of the technology.