Built Quote by Alicia Keys

When I look back, there was obviously the arch of my creativity and when I was young, I used to go to open homes…

— Jeremiah Brent

When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter,…

— Henning Mankell

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with…

— Charlie Sheen

My journey into the world of work after that was a bit more piecemeal than I would have liked, and it took a while…

— Melissa Leong

It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as if my…

— Kuki Gallmann

I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her…

— James McBride

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me…

— Jean Dubuffet

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's…

— Susan Downey

I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.

— Eva Zeisel

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away…

— Marc Chagall