Quotes About Creation

Am Anfang war das Wort, am Ende das Ding.

Eine Eigenschaft war etwas, auf das man mit dem Finger zeigen konnte, wenn man sich selber meinte. [...] Durch den Erwerb von Eigenschaften gelang noch dem Dümmsten der schwierige Akt der Selbsterschaffung.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

You are the reason I exist," she said softly, "the very reason I was born.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Rather than deliberately trying to draw something, use something you yourself like and want to draw, and I think the characters that come out of that will really have their own individuality.

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as a language.

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

Each thought you have informs your energy, and your energy manifests into your experiences. Your thoughts and energy create your reality.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.

I think cooking has the same creative process as designing, where you have the ingredients, you have the alchemy part of it, and you have the satisfaction of seeing your creation become a reality.

I am very and proud of what we've made. 'Maha Kumbh' has all the ingredients.

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.