Quotes About Creation

Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.

My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.

I think what you inherit is not real. I haven't inherited anything. What I have is really mine because I made it myself.

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

When you're initially making music, you're kind of just shooting at the air.

'3' was initially not a feature film but a short movie.

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

I like the idea of creating from your inner youth. You don't have to think too hard about it. Just make what feels good.

I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match.

Process innovation is different from product innovation. It's about how do you create a new product or develop a new product or manufacture a new product, but not a new product itself?

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

I don't like downtime, and I just am too insecure that I'll not work again if I don't start the ball rolling on the next round of things. Everything takes so long to make and come to fruition.

Art and life are inseparable.

Sometimes all the 'marketing' insight in the world can't move a client, but the creation of a truly great brand name can become a billion-dollar idea!

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.