Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I enjoy making and creating things.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

My compulsion is to create things.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I'm ready to create.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

I like to create.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

I love creating things. I love making things.

I like creating new things.

I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

I like to create new things.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

To be creative you actually have to do something.