Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

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.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

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

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I prefer writing originals.

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

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

My compulsion is to create things.

I love being creative in all forms.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

To create something you must be something.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.