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Quotes About Creation

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
~ Isaac Newton
This whole universe is but a drop of His Beauty!
~ Rumi
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.
~ Unknown
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
~ Oscar Wilde
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.
~ Unknown
An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.
~ Karl Marx
Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.
~ John Cage
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
~ Rumi
We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.
~ Jonas Mekas
Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.
~ Kamahl
Beauty would save the world.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.
~ Dolly Parton
Everything you do either adds to the beauty of the world or takes away from it.
~ Unknown
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
~ John Philip Sousa
A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.
~ Richard Briers
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
~ William Hazlitt
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
You manufacture beauty with your mind
~ Augusten Burroughs
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
~ Jacques Prévert
Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.
~ Shane West