Quotes About Creation

Aghion's conclusion is that we have to redesign fiscal systems so they distinguish clearly between the creation of value and the enjoyment of economic rents, even if, in practice, this distinction is not always easy to make.

L'écrivain – et chacun pouvait l'être –, en refusant d'être artiste, réalisait ce miracle de l'art : créer une chose !

They were working hard at their own myth.

C'est le premier matin du monde.

If the pain and destruction wasn't a kind of creation, too: the violence of birth, that kind of idea.

Urban Dictionary states: An eGolem is a physical creature born or animated from the sum experience of your social persona.

Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.

God made me and broke the mold.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

This is why we are not Manicheans: the same God who has created the world also saves it.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Mais il faut prier n'importe où, et dans la nature en particulier. Dans la nature il y a cet ordre de la création qui me fascine. Quand je pense que les bourgeons se mettent en place au mois de septembre pour que les lilas fleurissent au mois de mai! C'est prodigieux! C'est merveilleux. Pour moi cette organisation de la nature, à la fois visible et invisible, si minutieuse et si riche, ne peut venir que de Dieu.

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.

It's for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

This valley I thought was dead taught me why the origin of the world is in the wind. I can not only hear this cosmic whirlwind, I can see it...I think I'm seeing the moment when the world began with a storm.

On this view, God is the cause of physical evil. The question arose, then, whether He is also the cause of sin and of moral evil; and, if so, how He could have invented the very thing that corrupts His creation. The attempt to vindicate God's will was called theodicy in Greek, and it is this term that is traditionally used to refer to all human attempts to justify the existence of evil in a world that has been perfectly made. Theodicies

I believe you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

When this faculty of imagination is not kept alive, there is no more story to be told, and institutions begin to stiffen and become dogmatic. Their objectifications then take on the quality of absolutes. When imagination becomes stuck or frozen, creation and poetry are no longer possible, and this also closes the door to democratic processes as well the arts and sciences. If people lack imagination, how can they find solutions to the challenges of life?

It was not only at the moment of his manifestation that he made an offering of his life, but since the beginning of the world that he gave his life in offering.

Mr Banwell had mastered the great truth that truth itself, like buildings, can be manufactured.

Focus on what you believe and what you want to create, regardless of the blowback.

Writing is writing