Making Something Quotes

#1. Real content marketing isn't repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.

Seth Godin

#2. Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Laurie Anderson

#3. I feel like I am very drawn to the short form stuff because it's just fun to be making something, and then, a week later, it's out. I will always be drawn to that kind of thing.

Roman Coppola

#4. In the summer evenings, fireflies swarm around the tarn, making something hateful almost beautiful.

Bethany Griffin

#5. He glanced at me, then chuckled. "Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.

Joseph Finder

#6. She hated cleaning up after making something.

Patricia Highsmith

#7. When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!

Armando Iannucci

#8. Real revenge is making something of yourself.

Gerard Way

#9. When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

David Wroblewski

#10. I'm a man." Koll's shoulders sagged. "When did that happen?" "It just happens." "I wish I knew what it meant, being a man." "Guess it means something different for each one of us. The gods know I'm no sage, but if I've realized anything, it's that life isn't about making something perfect.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can.

Natalie

#12. I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

Kelly Reichardt

#13. What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something ... that is not easy to do.

Stanley Donen

#14. It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

Dana Brunetti

#15. Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

Saul Leiter

#16. The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

Sheila Ballantyne

#17. Making something is Hard
Making something you don't even CARE ABOUT is
EVEN HARDER .

JON WESTENBERG

#18. I'm very much into collaboration. I think that collaboration is the road to making something great. I respect artists that are more autocrats and are in control of their own projects, but it's not really my style. I've always had that partnership.

Tamaryn

#19. Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.

RuPaul

#20. I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

J. Cole

#21. In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

Steve Erickson

#22. Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.

Panda Bear

#23. Whenever I'm making something, the challenge is always to create something that's interesting for me to listen to.

Katy B

#24. Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard to come by. It's almost impossible to make one, and most people have to settle for making something less.

Holly Hunter

#25. I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.

Gary Cole

#26. If I want Callie to grow up to be a smart, strong woman, someone who values family and friends, and respects herself, I have to show her. If I want her to know the satisfaction of making something of herself with effort and work, I have to show her.

Nora Roberts

#27. I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

Brian Eno

#28. Surviving is what any animal would do. It's making something of yourself that earns the badge. Nobody can choose how they were born and raised, but everyone can choose how they're going to live.

Nadia Lee

#29. Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.

Austin Kleon

#30. Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.

Ned Herrmann

#31. As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.

Kevin Drew

#32. The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.

Chris Baty

#33. If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

Blake Judd

#34. If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#35. I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

Danger Mouse

#36. The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.

David Steinberg

#37. What was a prayer, if not creation? Making something where nothing existed. Creating a wish out of despair, a plea out of anguish. Bowing one's back before the Almighty, and forming humility from the empty pride of a human life.

Brandon Sanderson

#38. Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

Jason Fried

#39. On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.

Kirsten Vangsness

#40. I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key and a letter comes up and is printed on a piece of paper. I can understand that.

David McCullough

#41. Is an 'idea' an advance visualization of a piece? Part of a piece? If anything - if it hasn't already evaporated - it's one of the very first things sacrificed during the actual process of making something.

Judith Schaechter

#42. Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.

Chris Pine

#43. Making the process better, easier, and cheaper is an important aspiration, something we continually work on - but it is not the goal. Making something great is the goal.

Ed Catmull

#44. A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

William Morris

#45. There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Jane Alexander

#46. Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.

Molly Peacock

#47. I hope everything works in our favor. The show ["Are We There Yet?"] is cool. It's family fare. We ain't aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we're making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.

Ice Cube

#48. Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

Walter Darby Bannard

#49. The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.

James Mercer

#50. The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Eileen Caddy

#51. Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William S. Burroughs

#52. The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.

Andy Richter

#53. In ordinary life, creativity means making something for the soul out of every experience." Thomas Moore Finding

Joanna Penn

#54. Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.

Joseph Kosuth

#55. My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base.

Adam Savage

#56. There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.

Edmund De Waal

#57. With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.

Stephen Shore

#58. There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.

Daria Werbowy

#59. I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I decided to take that and use it as an inspiration for getting out of bed and making something again.

Frank Iero

#60. Some humans spend their whole lives making something that isn't real look like something that is.

Anna Banks

#61. The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

Banksy

#62. Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him. Rather, it can be said that collectively they are making something in common

David Bohm

#63. I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

Olivier Theyskens

#64. Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult

Anne Sigismund Huff

#65. Making something simple is very difficult.

Jack Dorsey

#66. The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.

William Feather

#67. You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

Moby

#68. When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you.

David Rakoff

#69. That's another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

Zia Haider Rahman

#70. I know I'm smiling just to look at him. I know that what he just said is making something unfurl inside. I know that all around the porch, a thick curtain of fog hides us from the world.

Jandy Nelson

#71. I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Neneh Cherry

#72. What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.

Jane Hirshfield

#73. I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.

St. Lucia

#74. My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

James Vincent McMorrow

#75. If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.

Satoru Iwata

#76. The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.

D.A. Wallach

#77. Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

Wayne Wonder

#78. I have a mantra that kind of explains my feelings on this subject, which is, "The past is the present is the future." When you're recording something, you're making something that will exist in the future.

Will Oldham

#79. She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties. She was making something

Elizabeth Gilbert

#80. Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Dieter Rams

#81. Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

James Russell Lowell

#82. Arseholes who are expert at making something out of nothing [ ... ] appeared equally capable of making nothing out of something

John Le Carre

#83. The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

Thomas Merton

#84. Making something out of nothing made me feel like I was important, like I had value.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#85. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why Pixar's goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Lee Unkrich

#86. My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Mark Zuckerberg

#87. Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.

Jaggi Vasudev

#88. The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

Zadie Smith

#89. I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

Tom Drury

#90. I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don't think there are any rules in art. It's not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it.

Keith Carter

#91. Introducing the idea of beauty as a salve and of aesthetics making something difficult accessible.

Henri Cole

#92. The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something.

Nick Hornby

#93. The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Leon Redbone

#94. What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Fernand Leger

#95. If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

Kanye West

#96. Words are the closest any of us can come to making something from nothing at all.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#97. When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

Grimes

#98. There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients into a feast,or a few gathered friends into a festival. Anyone with a talent of happiness can do this, not only the rich.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#99. What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.

Ken Sande

#100. Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.

Steve Jobs