Quotes About Creation

Matter is 'pregnant' with its form.

What is given is the metamorphosis of brute being, the giving birth.

From the moment of conception and still more after birth, there is an encroachment towards a future which is made from itself, under certain given conditions, and which is not the act of a donation of sense. Birth is not an act of constitution but the institution of a future. Reciprocally, institution resides in the same genus of Being as birth and is not, any more than birth, an act.

L'Être est ce qui exige de nous création pour que nous en ayons l'expérience.

Philosophy, precisely as 'Being speaking within us,' expression of the mute experience by itself, is creation. A creation that is at the same time a reintegration of Being...for...it knows itself to be a Gebilde and wishes to surpass itself as pure Gebilde, to find again its origin. It is hence a creation in a radical sense: a creation that is at the same time an adequation, the only way to obtain an adequation...Being is what requires creation of us for us to experience it.

It is necessary that a line, as a trace of movements, must be a rhythm, a law...a field of possibilities beyond the probable. This spatiality is meta-spatial...A line arouses the field that gives it sense by deforming the field given...It is a systematic error, 'coherent deformation'--thus each painting is the creation of a dimensionality--thus (1) the painting is a world for itself, not a copy of the world; (2) it expresses indirectly and not by returning to the object.

Writers don't have the impression that they are creating or inventing because they are, in effect, in the process of deciphering the hieroglyphics of their landscape.

Blind logic, logic which creates on the way.

Institution of a work, like the institution of a love, intends a sense as open sense, which develops by means of proliferation, by curves, decentering and recenterimg, zigzag, ambiguous passage, with a sort of identity between the whole and the parts, the beginning and end. A sort of existential eternity by means of self-interpretation.

One reason why the painter takes up his brush is that in one sense the art of painting still remains to be created...Painting is always something to be created.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

History, then, is neither a perpetual novelty nor a perpetual repetition, but rather the unique movement that both creates forms and shatters them.

Fiction is largely the process of writers solving problems of their own creation.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

She was one of those who are born to make chaos cosmic.

We, the atom and I, have been on friendly terms, until recently. I saw in it the key to the deepest secrets of Nature, and it revealed to me the greatness of creation and the Creator.

do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution. —George Wald, Chemist and Nobel Prize winner for medicine

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.