Making Something Quotes

70 quotes by 66 authors

It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so… — Jesse Eisenberg
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. — James Russell Lowell
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence. — Ewan McGregor
You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of… — Moby
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of… — William Morris
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance… — Zadie Smith
The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something,… — Christopher Walken
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. — Frank Zappa
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something… — Mark Zuckerberg
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that… — William S. Burroughs
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another… — Dorianne Laux
100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at… — Michael Marshall Smith
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old manâ€™s face, or an… — Duane Michals
Happiness is like coke â€” something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. — Aldous Huxley
Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a… — Seth Godin
In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the… — Philippa Gregory
She could smell the boy spice beneath the thrift-store aroma of his jacket, and the rubbing and the smell began to work to soften her… — Laini Taylor
As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself. — Tony Robbins
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making… — Jane Hirshfield

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