Quotes About Creation

Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

Al borde de la vida el miedo nos hace crear una imagen salvadora y esa imagen es lo que llamamos Dios

If so, then this definition stands as one of the earliest blueprints, in English, for fundamental reality-box making.

WHO it is that constructs the realities is NOT at all clear.

Indeed, most people are culturally discouraged from making their own reality treks into reality constructing.

To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.

If you believe what you say, words become reality.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.

When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One's fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

What nature creates has eternity in it.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

This most beautiful system -- The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?