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Quotes About Creation

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
~ Andre Malraux
Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.
~ Andrew Bird
I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.
~ Ayshay
I hate just showing up, hitting a mark, doing your work, and going home. It's very boring. But being part of the creation of the whole thing is very exciting.
~ Ben Gazzara
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.
~ Bertrand Russell
Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
~ Beth Henley
I have a really powerful urge to see things work.
~ Bill Budge
La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.
~ Blaise Pascal
But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.
~ Bret Harte
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
~ Bruce Babbitt
When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.
~ Camille Henrot
Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.
~ Chaim Potok
An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.
~ Courtney Barnett
In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.
~ David Bowie
I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
~ David Duchovny
A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.
~ David Gerrold
The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.
~ David Kim
No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't
~ Derek R. Audette
As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
~ DJ Jazzy Jeff
I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.
~ Doseone