Quotes About Creation

We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

It's not a coincidence that the Bible starts with Genesis. Most people really want to know where we came from and where everything around us came from. I like to strongly push the scientific answer. We have evidence. We no longer have to rely on stories we were told when we were young.

I strongly believe that music comes from the soul and no amount of technology can 'manufacture' that.

What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about them, you could look into the book and see them.

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning.

I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.

I feel, as a game maker, we are responsible to make content that stretch the ruling structure and emotions so that everyone can enjoy.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.

My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is on the horizon.

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things.

I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if you're doing it right, as opposed to writing a play and then waiting around for somebody else to complete it.