Quotes About Creation

The impression is that I'm still to be born and I can't quite manage it. I'm a heart beating in the world.

Criara em troca algo enfim compreensível, uma vida de adulto. Assim ela o quisera e escolhera.

Nunca saberei entender mas há de haver quem entenda. E é em mim que tenho de criar esse alguém que entenderá.

Creating isn't imagination, it's taking the great risk of grasping reality.

Perguntei que bicho era aquele mas na pergunta o tom talvez incluísse: por que você faz isso? Que carência é essa que faz você inventar um cachorro? E por que não um cachorro mesmo então? Pois se os cachorros existem! Ou você não teve outro modo de possuir a graça desse bicho senão com uma coleira? Mas você esmaga uma rosa se apertá-la com carinho demais.

Para ler, é claro, prefiro o atraente, me poupa mais, me arrasta mais, me delimita e me contorna. Para escrever, porém, tenho que prescindir. Não se faz uma frase. A frase nasce. A vida é mais longa do que a fazemos. Cada instante conta.

Transfiguro la realidad y entonces otra realidad soñadora y noctámbula me crea.

Mas agora chegou a hora de parar a pintura para me refazer, refaço-me nestas linhas. Tenho uma voz. Assim como me lanço no traço de meu desenho, este é um exercício de vida sem planejamento. O mundo não tem ordem visível e eu só tenho a ordem da respiração. Deixo-me acontecer.

Sometimes—sometimes we ourselves manifest the inexpressive—one does that in art, in bodily love as well—to manifest the inexpressive is to create. In the end we are so happy!

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

I don't have the feeling that I write my books. I have the feeling that my books get written through me and once they have got across me I feel empty and nothing is left.

The world began without the human race and it will end without it…. Man has never—save only when he reproduces himself—done other than cheerfully dismantle million upon million of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Here's the best thing about being a writer: it's like having a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to imaginary people in a made-up world. Here's the worst thing about being a writer: it makes you wish even more that you had a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to actual people in your own real life" -Autumn

It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.

Sabías que la poesía no es jamás sólo tuya, como el amor, sino de todos; no es el poeta el que crea las palabras, decías y declamabas, es la palabra la que se le hecha encima y le hace poeta...

Per Goethe [...] l'innaturale probabilmente non esisteva: la natura goethiana abbraccia e avvolge ogni cosa ed è lei che muove e crea, con elusiva ironia, tutte le forme, pure quelle che sembrano negarla e che agli uomini appaiono "innaturali". (Danubio, p.37)

He looked upward toward the night sky and said, "Honestly…was this the best you could do? Truly? Create creatures willing to work themselves into a state where they toss aside all reason? If the answer is yes, then what does that say about you? If the answer is no, then why didn't you put some more effort into it?

For we are your offspring.

Fingernails filling with silt, scraping the sculpted...

Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but there is certainly no Earth.