Quotes About Creation

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

The great companies get built by their founders

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.