“Neither yet can you be able to prove, that we either by word or writing have affirmed, that the principal end of any man’s creation was perpetual pain.”— John Knox, amazon.com
“The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.”— Adam Savage, wired.com
“God sent his only son on a suicide mission, but people like him because he made trees.”— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com
“There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.”— Akira Kurosawa, amazon.com
“The limits of man's observation lie within very narrow boundaries, and it would be arrogance to suppose that the reach of man's power is to form the limits of the natural world. The universe offers daily proof of the existence of power of which we know nothing, but whose mighty agency nevertheless m…”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“The works of the Creator, ever present to our senses, give a living and perpetual testimony of his power and goodness far surpassing any evidence transmitted through human testimony. The testimony of man becomes fainter at every stage of transmission, whilst each new inquiry into the works of the Al…”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility. Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters. Creation is all.”— Pablo Picasso, amazon.com
“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”— Magdalena Abakanowicz, lc.edu
“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“In the beginning, there was nothing... Then God says "let there be light". Now there was still nothing, but at least you can see it.”— rockaether, reddit.com
“We create as a means to become complete, yet creativity is infinite.”— Noah A. Nemley (via LEGENDMEDIA), quotemadness.com
“One does not think during creative work any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years – learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this – then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment.”— Edward Weston, amazon.com
“I was talking to Spike Jonze the other day, and he was like, 'Yeah, I'm not really doing anything right now. My rule is, if it's not more fun than going surfing, I'm not gonna do it.' I love when I say no to everything.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com