Quotes About Creation

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

Exchange is creation.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.