Quotes About Creation

Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.

CAMPBELL: You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

the ultimate experience of love is a realization that beneath the illusion of two-ness dwell identity: each is both. This realization can expand into a discovery that beneath the multitudinous individualities of the whole surrounding universe--human, animal, vegetable, even mineral--dwells identity; whereupon the love experience becomes cosmic, and the beloved who first opened the vision is magnified as the mirror of creation.

I was intrigued by the definition of the Force. Ben Kenobi says, "The Force is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together." And I've read in The Hero with a Thousand Faces similar descriptions of the world navel, of the sacred place, of the power that is at the moment of creation.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. ~ Joseph Campbell

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

To what degree was the intention of the artist what we would call "aesthetic" or to what degree expressive? And to what degree is the art something that they had simply learned to do that way? When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider's nature. It's instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive? How much of it is conscious and intentional? That is

My friend had thought, "God did this to me." I told her, "No, you did it to yourself. The God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.

Indeed, it was the conviction of some divines that God created night as proof of hell's existence.

We didn't know we were creating memories, we were just having fun

in the Edwardian way of things, collected indiscriminately and rigorously, with the global kleptomania of empire and the desire to own, calibrate, measure and stuff everything possible, to put all of creation into its place, and place as much of it as possible in glass cases.

In America, immigration is the story of hope and achievement, of youth, of freedom, of creation. But all entrances on one stage are exits elsewhere.

A stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.

Once men imagine a danger they soon turn it into a reality.

Bir ?iirde dizeler bir duvar?n ta?lar? gibidir. Ta?, bir duvarda nas?l ta? olmaktan ç?kmaz, yap?s?n?, do?as?n? korursa, dizeler de öyledir." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 33

God is a child who amuses himself, passes from laughter to tears without reason, and every day invents the world for the torment of the abstractors of its quintessence, the pedants, and the preachers who pretend to teach him his trade of creator.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Rien ne vient de rien & rien ne se perd dans le rien

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Music must always flow, for that is part of its very essence, but the creation of that continuity and flow--that long line-- constitutes the be-all and end-all of every composer's existence.