Quotes About Creation

I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than anything, it hurts them. When you're born rich, people just associate you with what you've been given, but the truth is every individual feels better when you create something on your own. Everyone takes pride in the work they do.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.

So I created a tool for you to do just that. With the Mii Fighter creator you can have any character you want join the battle.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.

God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.