Quotes About Creation

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I honestly believe that all of my work have the type of impact that will allow me to create some unique opportunities.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

You too are a work of art.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

I work from the inside out.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.