Quotes About Creation

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.

The only way to end up in the perfect future is to invent it yourself.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent a character that doesn't exist; make them seem like they do.

Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Sex was invented by God.

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

The government invented the Internet.

I invented myself.

This Romeo character is something I decided to create, like my alter ego. So the name Romeo was invented from the original Romeo and Juliet. I wanted to show people I'm like a modern Romeo.