Quotes About Creation

I always suspected that programmers became programmers because they got to play God with the little universe boxes on their desks.

elements or origins.

LOYAL TO THE SOIL—WE NEED WATER NOT OIL and IF WE DESTROY CREATION, CREATION WILL DESTROY US.

This tells us our redemption is older than creation itself, and that God's loving heart and will to save us traces to eternity past.54 That's how long God has loved you.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

the author supplies you with a satisfying ending in the last ten pages. This is nonfiction, which means it's about real life—which means the ending hasn't been written yet. And the only one who can write it is you. So, let me ask you: How does it end?

Great art is never finished, only abandoned. — Leonardo da Vinci

The goal of using stories isn't to write better stories. The goal of product development isn't to make products.

Great art is never finished, only abandoned.

we need to acknowledge that building software isn't the same as working on an assembly line. You're not just building one more widget like the one you built a few minutes ago. Each new story we create software to support is something new.

to get something built; rather, it is to learn if we're building

I think his discovery scared even him. Sometimes Frankenstein has to kill his own monster.

I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.

Allowing something you've created to be undermined to a point where you can no longer believe in it or stand behind it feels suicidal to me.

No work of art is ever finished; it can only be abandoned in an interesting place.

everything you find enticing about being able to circumvent your "blocked" state is also a product of your imagination. When I feel like I'm stuck, I try to put myself back in touch with the reality of the situation. There are no rules AND I make them!

However much I disdained the notion of a drug-addled rock star, some part of me still believed that creation myth, that you have to suffer. And then I realized that everyone suffers. Therefore, anyone who creates art can, if they choose, focus on their suffering and say that's where it comes from.

I believe that poetry came into existence because people needed it—if it were easy to write down and record things without poetry, we wouldn't have needed poetry. But for some reason we did.

Don't we want more than anything to make something that reflects who we are and how we feel honestly enough that someone else might feel seen or acknowledged, and less alone?

The creative state is the most important part. None of it means anything if you're not excited by the discovery of what you're making.

What you make of the song or what the world will make of it is of little concern when contrasted with the joy that I've talked about many times now—the joy of disappearing long enough to find something you didn't know you had inside you.

take the final necessary steps—arranging and recording—needed to dress my songs up enough to send them out into the world.

The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive.

And God said, Let there be light. God said that, Saul, and He has come from so far away, and His home is gone, but His purpose remains. Would you deny Him His new kingdom?