Quotes About Creation

Weeks of longing and solitude: twin muses of creation.

About accidents we do not have many choices. Our job is to make better the world God gave us. We are partners with God. One day you will understand. We have to work hard to make it a good world. But it is not an impossible job.

An artist needs a broken world in order to have pieces to shape into art. . . . Comfort is death to art.

The Master of the Universe has so created the world that everything that can be good can also be evil. It is mankind that makes a thing good or evil, Reuven, depending upon how we use the wonders we have been given.

And now you'll be able to sail right through to the end." "I've already written the end. It was the beginning I couldn't write." "The story you just told me is part of your beginning?" "It is the myself that predates what I am now.

Oh, if I could paint this, I thought. Ribbono Shel Olom, if I could paint this world, this clean world of rain and patterns on glass, and trees on my street, and people beneath the trees. I would even paint and draw pain and suffering if I could paint and draw the other, too. I would paint the rain as tears and I would paint the rain as waters of purification. What do they want from me? Ribbono Shel Olom, it's Your gift. Why don't You show them it's Your gift?

Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone.

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

Tearing down is always easier than building up

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we wanted to hear.

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

I try to find very simplistic melodies, which are the hardest ones to create.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

I enjoy and understand melody before I create it. But the challenge is that I've also got to satisfy the film going audience of today.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

I'll generally always get melody first and then I'll go in and try and think of a title and lyrics generally come last.

What it boils down to is that we look for a melody and we look for a lyric, and we look for an atmosphere and an emotion, and we try to concoct a song out of all of those ingredients.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

I create fashion that is memorable.

I don't just want to create products. I want to reach into people's hearts and minds. I want to create memories.