Making Quotes

“One of the strangest things is the act of creation.

You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument.

You then look inside yourself. You pull and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapeless things that swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your head like Zeus giving birth to Athena.

And as it comes out, it takes shape and tangible form.

It drips on the canvas, and slides through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the surface of the wood or marble.

You have given it cohesion. You have brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing.

You have glimpsed the divine.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Love is beyond reason. Love is not measurable in words. Love cannot be partial; it cannot have owners. Love is essentially beyond definition or concept.”
― Mabel iam

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
― Vincent Van Goth

“Dream by making and make by dreaming.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“I don't make monsters.
Definitions make monsters.
You make definitions.”
― Jeff Mach, There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord

“The law is that you
must live

in the house you have built.

The law is absurd: it is
written down nowhere.

You are uncertain what crime

is, though each life writhing to
elude what it has made

feels like punishment.”
― Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems

“For some young artists, it can take a bit of time to discover which tools (which medium, or genre, or career pathway) will truly suit them best. For me, although many different art forms attract me, the tools that I find most natural and comfortable are language and oil paint; I've also learned that as someone with a limited number of spoons it's best to keep my toolbox clean and simple. My husband, by contrast, thrives with a toolbox absolutely crowded to bursting, working with language, voice, musical instruments, puppets, masks animated on a theater stage, computer and video imagery, and half a dozen other things besides, no one of these tools more important than the others, and all somehow working together. For other artists, the tools at hand might be needles and thread; or a jeweller's torch; or a rack of cooking spices; or the time to shape a young child's day....

To me, it's all art, inside the studio and out. At least it is if we approach our lives that way.”
― Terri Windling

“The universe had to fall apart into dust first
to become its majestic, infinite self.
What makes you think
this trauma, this devastation,
won't be the making of
a more powerful you, too?”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”
― Steven Magee

“There are only two options in life: Either you refrain yourself from making promises or from breaking them after you have failed the first test.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Making the assumption from the outset that the police are corrupt will help in protecting you from their corruption.”
― Steven Magee

“Making the assumption that I am in the presence of criminals has always kept me safe when interacting with police officers.”
― Steven Magee

“Tinkering is a fun way to learn about the world around you! You get to play with materials, experiment, and work through ideas.”
― Ryan Jenkins, The Tinkering Workshop: Explore, Invent & Build with Everyday Materials; 100 Hands-On STEAM Projects

“The Trump administration are making it clear that it is a bad time to be a whistle blower.”
― Steven Magee

“Global pollution is in the process of making places outside of the tropics hazardous to human health.”
― Steven Magee

“Sometimes in making a wrong turn; We are led to our purpose driven”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Never give up on the good.
It may not be there for the taking,
but it is surely there for the making.”
― Chris Ernest Nelson

“One of the most satisfying feelings is the feeling of making progress”
― Balayz

“Sometimes a supplement that is making you sicker is actually making you better!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Question everything...as some of it is just plain wrong and may actually be making you quite ill!”
― Steven Magee

“Climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous.”
― Steven Magee

“Flooding does not appear to be making the gasoline cars go on fire like the electric cars do.”
― Steven Magee

“Ammonia poisoning was making me really sickly!”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Budget airlines are often making money from canceling their passengers flights and not refunding them.”
― Steven Magee

“Research is about making many connections that lead to discovery.”
― Steven Magee

“I am expert in making the internet work for me.”
― Steven Magee

“Imagine a world where things are fixed one more time than they are broken.”
― Laura Kampf

“The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making. And so one aspect of the history of walking is the history of thinking made concrete — for the motions of the mind cannot be traced, but those of the feet can.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“So the Dark did a simple thing," he said. "They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such endless fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.”
― Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree

“I wasn't used to seeing a lone wolf. I could've sword the FBI sent them out in identical pairs. This one even have that generic look about him, like God had rolled a lot of him off a belt thirty years ago, got 'em to quality control, gave 'em one good once over and said, 'Eh, good enough for government work.”
― K.M. Mayville, A Cult of Questionable Motives