Quotes About Creation

On the whole I think poems don't crawl out of dreams. They are knocked out of rocks.

Ar vertÄ—jo mus sukurti, jie mes tokie prakeikti kvailiai?

There is no creation without destruction. There is no light without dark. That's what my nuns didn't understand. It isn't a competition. Good and evil are all part of the same thing.

From my hand,

To plunge one thing into the shape or nature of another is a fundamental gesture of creative insight, part of how we make for ourselves a world more expansive, deft, fertile, and startling in richness.

Art can be defined as beauty able to transcend the circumstances of its making.

Don't deny the dreams. They're a gift given to make your life full. Accept them. Reach for them. We are not here just to endure hard times until we die. We are here to live, to serve, to trust, and to create out of our longings.

You create your own reality

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

Consciousness creates form. It is not the other way around. All personalities are not physical. It is only because you are so busily concerned with daily matters that you do not realize that there is a portion of you who knows that its own powers are far superior to those shown by the ordinary self.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist. It's perfect in its existence. The only way it could be imperfect would be to NOT exist.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them in one of these tiny coffins. Beans, you know, are beautifully shaped, like a new church, like modern architecture, like a planned city

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even our little corner of it.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

You are created in God's image.

After having the 4-5 wraps, you are now done with wrapping around the bead, so you should now finish on the sides.

Now clip the unwanted parts of your wire, and allow about 1.5 inches of wire to each of the sides to finish the ring with.

Julia Cameron's book The Artist's

Just the self-assurance that God created you exactly like you are and loves you just the way you are.