Quotes About Creation

His masterpiece was a dead end—but isn't that true of any masterpiece?

Het nieuwe ontstaat nooit eenvoudigweg door interpolatie van het oude.

El hombre nunca ha podido amar, más que en la inmortalidad; seguramente por eso las mujeres estaban más cerca del amor cuando tenían la misión de dar la vida. Hemos

Newton se ocupa de la manzana que cae; Dom Pérignon, de la vid que sale de la tierra. El primero encierra el cosmos en fórmulas; el segundo, en botellas. El

Le propre de la création est de rendre l'impossible non seulement réel, mais nécessaire.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

20. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it

From such a gentle thing,from such a fountain of all delight,my every pain is born...

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

You are priceless— fearfully and wonderfully made. God shaped and modeled you in your mother's womb. God created you in his own image. You were created, redeemed, and are deeply loved and valued by God. Therefore, the man who wants to be involved with you should have to count the cost.

Everything God made is beautiful.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.