Quotes About Creation

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.

It's still a mysterious thing, making music.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.

I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the different corps. The universe has expanded and will live well past my run. It was more than just telling another story, but really giving back to the character by expanding and adding to their mythology.

The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.