Quotes About Creation

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

God created man, but I could do better.

I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress.