Quotes About Creation

you make the fire and I'll show you something wonderful: a big ball of snow!

Birth of art – song of rice planters, chorus from nowhere.

I've come to believe that everything is of this earth. Including you and me. The most complex human invention already existed in the soil. We do not make up new things out of thin air; we simply find already existing elements, born of this earth, and place them in new combinations. Progress is merely organization and creativity. - Pacal

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

All a writer can do is provide a match, and hopefully a dry one. The reader has to strike the flame into being.

If God exists, what is He but a mathematician?

Beauty--be not caused," said Emily Dickinson. "It is." In one way she was wrong. The scattering of light over a long distance creates a sunset. The crashing of ocean waves on a beach is created by tides, which are themselves the result of gravitational forces exerted by the sun and the moon and the rotation of the Earth. Those are causes. The mystery lies in how those things become beautiful.

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.

Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.

We were made from stardust, like everything in the universe, and we - each of us - carried a power inside us. A power that couldn't be destroyed anymore than the universe could be destroyed.

The object of art is to give life a shape

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn't this objective unchangeable thing called "The World." No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds.

We all come from randomness. We exist out of uncertainty. Out of near impossibility. And yet we exist.

People say that humans are the superior species on this planet because we have minds that are conscious of their own existence, and therefore we have the capacity to create a culture, to create an art. I look at sheep, at peace on the moors, and wonder exactly how much of a delusion are our arrogant souls prepared to share?

Every second of every day we are entering a new universe.

The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life.

Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity.

When your grateful for things or qualities you possess you're much more likely to create happiness in your life.

Omnes mundum facimus.

April, she had died. April could still be a very cold month in Ithaca, though it was certainly not the best month for dying of exposure. A depressed person would have a better bet walking along the edge of one of the gorges and "accidentally" falling in. Of course the man Jessop had done neither; hand-making his daughter's tombstone had probably kept him too occupied to even consider suicide. Yes. That was it; that was the key. An act of creation in the face of loss.

Words originated, as did the concept of God, with our species.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.