Quotes About Creating Something

#1. There was something transporting about the act of creating something from nothing.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.

Gunter Grass

#3. I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.

Harvey Mason Jr.

#4. At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

George Hickenlooper

#5. Destruction is easy. But creating something that lasts is a challenge.

Christie Golden

#6. If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.

Shepard Fairey

#7. Being an entrepreneur is really exciting for me. Whether it's creating something or just building a company and giving others the opportunity to build a career, I think it's exciting to be at the helm of these types of activities.

Anousheh Ansari

#8. It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#9. The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Ellar Coltrane

#10. First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

Frank McCourt

#11. Maybe relationships were a force of forward motion, creating something new out of the present and future, until eventually that became shared past.

Anonymous

#12. I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

Big Boi

#13. I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

George Hickenlooper

#14. What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

Olivier Theyskens

#15. I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

Estella Warren

#16. Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

Kylie Bax

#17. There is no greater joy in life than the joy of creating something.

Abhay Kumar

#18. Even though I worked hard at times, it was always magical. I have to confess I enjoyed every minute of it. Even the down times I enjoyed, because we were creating something that would make people smile and lift their hearts. You can't think of a better job than that.

Floyd Norman

#19. If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.

James Gustave Speth

#20. When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could have an impact on the whole world, and even as a young boy I was passionate about fitness and sports.

Magnus Scheving

#21. Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

Glenn Branca

#22. The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be [loud dive bar, small theatre, festival] is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.

Sarah Burton

#23. Winning is about moving into the unknown and creating something new.

Phil Jackson

#24. I felt stuck in a Sisyphean loop, writing the same press release over and over. Even more, I was tired of promoting other people's creations instead of creating something myself. I imagined myself on my deathbed, and I could hear my biggest regret: I never even tried to be a writer.

Helene Wecker

#25. However, these communities were also subject to the infusion of the world around them and their notion of tradition became altered in the very act of dissimulation. They 'falsely' believed they were protecting something old when, in fact, they were creating something new.

Shaul Magid

#26. I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.

John Wells

#27. Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

Henry Moore

#28. You have not been given the task of creating something brand new from the vast world around you. All you are called to do is discover what is inside of you right now, the life you have been given. Once you find that, you can begin creating something external that aligns with and affirms your spark.

Stephen Lovegrove

#29. The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

Clement Greenberg

#30. I guess I learned a couple of good lessons from my dad. One was when you're creating something, what you want when you're working with a team of other artists, is everybody to work with some creative freedom, so that you really get the best out of everybody.

Brian Henson

#31. Gray was two people from different worlds coming together unexpectedly and creating something new. Gray took the best parts of us both and fit them together into something larger than we were apart.

Tara Sue Me

#32. To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Brian Setzer

#33. Through the mere act of creating something - anything - you might inadvertently produce work that is magnificent, eternal, or important

Elizabeth Gilbert

#34. Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

Blake Lively

#35. As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Charlie Haden

#36. Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#37. For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for

Tim Smit

#38. I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

Natascha McElhone

#39. A lot of pop music has come out of people failing to copy their model and accidentally creating something new. The closer you get to your ideal, the less original you sound.

Elvis Costello

#40. Perhaps you should try creating something of note before you attempt to criticize something created by another.

Andre Cole

#41. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. I

Mitch Albom

#42. Who's the artist?"
"My favorite." She pauses. "Unknown." Edydie sits cross-legged on the couch. "There is something so pure about an artist creating something for the sheer joy of it, then sharing it with people and claiming no credit. To me that's the height of romance.

Adriana Trigiani

#43. I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.

Steve Wozniak

#44. Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#45. Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.

Radhanath Swami

#46. If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

Steve Vai

#47. The challenge for any artist - and we are all creating something on the canvas of our lives - is to do our work well while letting go of the result.

Jeff Goins

#48. It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

Carrie Brownstein

#49. The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

Christina Baldwin

#50. I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am.

Jason Letts

#51. Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.

Elliott Erwitt

#52. In games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a time scale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide.

Sherry Turkle

#53. There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself. Professor Piper

Rainbow Rowell

#54. If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

Grace Slick

#55. Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.

Graham King

#56. I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

Anthony Warlow

#57. You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

Gary Vaynerchuk

#58. Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so, I'm trying to make my solo shows something different altogether.

Thighpaulsandra

#59. We are creating something tangible or creating excuses why we can't create.

Mike Sovelius

#60. You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

David Meerman Scott

#61. Creating something is only half the battle. The other half is finding people who care about it.

Ramsey Isler

#62. The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

Arthur C. Brooks

#63. It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#64. After creating something and hearing from someone that it really helped them or changed their life motivates me to continue doing this.

Jeet Banerjee

#65. if you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away. The right people don't need to be tightly managed or fired up; they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great.

James C. Collins

#66. I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

Clive Owen

#67. Everyone too busy trying to survive to spend any time creating something new.

James S.A. Corey

#68. The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.

Steve Buscemi

#69. God took the hard rocks at the bottom of my pit and stacked them up high, creating something beautiful for His glory.

Diane Cunningham

#70. But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

Rainbow Rowell

#71. I do always want to be creating something; I can't help it. I don't know why that is, but I'm certainly not gonna knock it now, at the age of 36. It seems to be working.

Alison Mosshart

#72. Cultivation means you will be creating something around yourself which you are not.

Osho

#73. If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

Elizabeth Gilbert

#74. As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

Tom Ford

#75. Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

Linda Chavez

#76. In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.

Tino Sehgal

#77. The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.

Brandon Sanderson

#78. Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

Bruce Glover

#79. I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

Richard Li

#80. That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

Alan Arkin

#81. I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Amy Lee

#82. When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#83. Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Sophie Marceau

#84. He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating something hot and comforting for another person.

Charlie Jane Anders

#85. The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

Richard P. Feynman

#86. God is always creating something new, He wants to give us new information and reveal to us new secrets in order to exalt us over this world

Sunday Adelaja

#87. Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Tracy Chapman

#88. I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

Glenn Branca

#89. Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires forging a team that will work hard to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, stand up to the pressures of fame and fortune, and stay true to the original vision long after others stop believing.

Jay Samit

#90. From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth.

Scott Pruett

#91. Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.

Shu Uemura

#92. One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

Michael Apted

#93. In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.

Brene Brown

#94. America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

David Chang

#95. I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#96. I tend to connect most easily with two kinds of people, those who are creating something and those who are easily vulnerable. Both trees grow from the same root, I think, and that's the willingness to take risks.

Donald Miller

#97. Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Kathleen Hanna

#98. Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

Hugo Weaving

#99. I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

Eartha Kitt

#100. Life is about taking what's given to us and creating something wonderful.

Belinda Jeffrey