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Quotes About Creation

All nature seems at work.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
~ Steve Lacy
Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.
~ Susan Wallace
The work of creation is never without travail.
~ T. S. Eliot
What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.
~ Yoko Ono
Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.
~ Ben Chestnut
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
~ David Bowie
All creativity is a work in progress.
~ Dean Cavanagh
The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.
~ George Bernard Shaw
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
~ H. G. Wells
I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.
~ Unknown
I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.
~ Jack Kirby
All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.
~ Unknown
He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
~ Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.
~ Adam Carolla
I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.
~ Aida Turturro
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
~ Albert Camus
Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.
~ Unknown
Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
~ Amy Sherman-Palladino
The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.
~ Anais Nin
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good."
~ Andre Gide