Creation Quotes

I can live without many things. But, deprived of a medium with which to create, I would fall apart. If you understand that, you will understand me.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

What if the catalyst or the key to understanding creation lay somewhere in the immense mind of the whale?…Some species go for months without eating anything. Just completely idle.. So they have this incredible mental apparatus and no one has the least notion what they do with it. Lilly says that the most logical supposition, based on physiological and ecological evidence, is that they contemplate the universe…

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

The core value was always the act of making things, and the transformation of an idea that you hold in your mind that becomes real or material. That to me still is the glory of any creative activity.

Stop sketching and start building.

Think of it as you want it, not as it is!

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.

Everything is created twice - first mentally, then physically.

Let's just hope we accidentally build god.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to ... set the Universe going.

When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.

To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.

I have invented myself entirely: a childhood, a personality, longings, dreams and memories, all in order to enable me to tell them.

Sometimes you have to keep ideas for decades before they have any use.

Don’t become a slave of your methods. Remain flexible — use whatever works.