Quotes About Creation

28. God's love does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. Human love comes into being through that which is pleasing to it.

The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

the 'creation of the idea of the perpetual enemy' was indispensable for Stalin.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

De la difficulté naissent de belles choses.

But don't you see," I exclaimed. "Everything is synchronicity. Nothing happens by chance." As I said these words in my dream, a tremendous energy flooded my brain and shocked me awake, forcing me to consider this intuitive answer. What if it were true? What if, moment by moment, we create our own realities through our consciousness?

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

We, and the visible universe around us, may exist only because of a difference in the ninth decimal place between the numbers of quarks and of antiquarks.

Most people just see a blank page and hear nothing. I see a universe waiting to be born and hear voices that want to speak...

It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive. Curate that energy, feed it, don't domesticate it, make culture from it. It should be walking alongside you, not slung over your shoulder. You build your structures from its growls.

Everything that exists perishes, everything that has been created by those who perish will be destroyed. One inevitably leads to the other, one can never return to the primordial.

Getting confirmation of one's own creation is based solely on uncertainty and a lack of focus in one's own thinking.

Life is what you make it,

Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason that that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.

I don't know anyone else who could dream a world where nothing ends.

New ideas capture and possess the mind that births them," said Robert Grudin in The Grace of Great Things. "They colonize it and renew its laws.

It's almost impossible to reconcile creativity with cleanliness. The sculptor gets metal dust all over his studio. The writer must wade through a clutter of notes, books, and crumpled drafts to get to her desk. The rock musician must weave through a tangle of cables, black boxes, guitar stands, and song notes to sit down and create.

We consider that God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, and a faculty which may be enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated from heaven to the intellect.

I am not saying that those who have not yet come to be are nothing.18 They are [28] within one who may wish that they come into being if at some future point he so wishes.

On the one hand, he knows, before anything appears, what he will produce. On the other hand, the fruit that has not yet appeared knows nothing and does nothing.

For whatever has no root has no fruit, and although thinking, "I have come into being," it will perish by itself. So whatever does not exist will never exist.