Making Quotes

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Wisdom comes from making mistakes, having the courage to face them, and make adjustments moving forward based upon the knowledge aquired through those experiences.

~ Ken Poirot

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

~ Jeffrey Fry

The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities.

~ Rachelle Doorley

Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it.

~ Steven Magee

War! Someone's making a hell of a lot of money.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

There are three categories of people exist in the world; “the wanters”, “the wishers” and “the makers.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Stop making excuses and start making history.

~ A.d. Posey

After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

~ Scott Westerfeld

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 instr

~ Vera Nazarian

The culture of making is more about a mindset than a lifestyle. Makers have a curiosity for the built world around them. Understanding where things come from, how they are made, the potential of their function now and beyond, and what it takes to make something not only provides a context to appreciate the object at hand but is essential to imagining infinite possibilities for the future.

~ Rachelle Doorley

Creativity is magic in the making.

~ A.d. Posey

If automating everything makes people lazier and lazier, and laziness leads to stupidity, which it does for most people, judging by the current content circulating the social networks everywhere, except North Korea, where they don’t have any internet to speak of - at some point the Japanese robots, for which a market niche is currently being developed, with no concerns on how they should be designed to act in society or outside it - will have no choice, but to take everything over, to preserve us from ourselves…

~ Will Advise

The longer you remain distant, the deeper, wider, and darker the chasm becomes making it all the more difficult to bridge.

~ Ken Poirot

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

~ Matthew De Abaitua

Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now. Time will soon tell.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Making and thinking about somebody is special... you go in the tracks of saying that you are horrible and not anymore special.

~ Deyth Banger

I had to make a large number of changes to clear Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) up, it took years to figure it out. I kept on making change after change until one day I realized that EHS was no longer present.

~ Steven Magee

The important thing is to convince people to make and share useful things. Fighting with greedy douches who don't share doesn't do that. Making more, living under conditions of abundance, that does it.

~ Cory Doctorow

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

~ Jeffrey Fry

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

~ Michael Haneke

A creative invitation is a combination of materials and context that intrigue children with a suggestion of play.

~ Rachelle Doorley

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

~ Bernie Mac

I love making music, though. I love playing.

~ Pharrell Williams

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

~ Matthew Vaughn

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

~ Pablo Neruda

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

~ Denis Villeneuve

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

~ Seamus Heaney

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

~ Dennis Gabor