Nick Mason Quotes

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.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

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

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

I like to create.

Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

I love creating things. I love making things.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I enjoy making and creating things.

Some people like to paint and sing. We like to create and build.

I did not play with dolls. I played with a little hammer, paint and wood.

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.

[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.

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.

It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

The art of making art, is putting it together.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.