Quotes About Creation

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him. And they cried out in a great voice: He made us. CS Lewis

I can't think why men would believe that it is a better world where something beautiful is destroyed and something broken left in its place.

and publishing. To take a thought and work on it, to render it into the clearest form possible, and then to send it out into the world – this is work so precious and so joyful that I am not surprised that men have kept it to themselves.

I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.

You don't make art, you find it

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. Picasso

Every act of creation is first of all an action of destruction.

Pour moi, peindre un tableau c'est engager une action dramatique au cours de laquelle la réalité se trouve déchirée. Ce drame l'emporte sur toute autre considération. L'acte plastique n'est que secondaire, en ce qui me concerne. Ce qui compte, c'est le drame de l'acte lui-même, le moment où l'univers s'échappe pour rencontrer sa propre destruction

poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

In no case does the energy required for synthesis appear to be provided by an influx of fresh capital, but by expenditure.

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être trouvé que ce qui n'a jamais existé encore.

God created the earth but the Devil evolved it.

All true art stems from the depths of the unconscious mind.

Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

La Vita o si vive o si scrive

He was a wise man who invented God.

Ideas are the source of all things

According to Greek mythology, humans were orginally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them in two seperate beings, condeming them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue

For the plan grows under the author's hand; new thoughts occur to him in the act of writing; he has not worked out the argument to the end before he begins.

So if anyone is to declare how the all was in this way genuinely born, he must also mix in the form of the wandering cause-how it is its nature to sweep things around. In this way, then, we must retreat, and, by taking in turn another, new beginning suited to these very matters, just as in what was before us earlier, so too in what is before us now, we must begin again from the beginning.

the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit which is common to them and all men. And hence they are very bad company, for they can talk about nothing but the praises of wealth.

those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children