Timeless Creation Quotes

I want to make something great. I want to make something that I can be proud of in 10 years, something that is timeless.

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

Build something with enduring value.

I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.

Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

Don't you just want to make something that lives forever? Something that's phenomenal, something that's great, something that's undeniable? That touches the core of every person that hears it?

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'