Quotes About Creation

Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

The Inhumans are almost a mythological creation unto themselves. They're royalty, and are always involved in Marvel's cosmic events. But with the explosion of the Terrigen bomb and these new Inhumans coming to light, it brings a new street level aspect to add to the royalty aspect.

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

I wrote 'Jungle' in my bedroom when I was having a manic time with a particular girl. Everyone thinks it's this really upbeat song, but it's not; it was just a really manic time, so I wrote a song about it.

Creating 'Upgrade' was really something I enjoyed even though it was stressful. I would do it all again.

'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When we were growing up, some of those Amblin films, those Spielberg movies, led to the creation of the PG-13 rating because he was pushing it so dark and he upset a lot of parents. I liked that, though.

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

I've never been stuck in the Upside Down, and no one else I know has, so it was kind of something new to just create.

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.

The crown of creation.

In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.