Quotes About Creation

Yes, she had needed that. She had needed it all her life, without knowing that was what she needed. The joy of creation, of play, had been the empty place unfilled by family and social duties. She would have loved her children better, she thought now, if she had realized how much she herself needed to play, to follow her own childish desire to handle beautiful things and make more beauty.

Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore be ignored.

The invention of languages is the foundation.The "stories" were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse. To me a name comes first and the story follows

The invention of languages is the foundation.The "stories" were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse. To me a name comes first and the story follows' (Letters, 165, p. 219).

she found herself blessing God for her creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for His inestimable Love; out loud; in a burst of acknowledgement.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

One writes to make a home for oneself on paper, in time, in other's minds.

Why not? Because humans through their time-binding capacity are first of all creators and so their number is not controlled by the supply of unaided nature, but only by men's artificial productivity, which is the materialization of their time-binding capacity

The demiurge is a hybrid

Acaso el último y verdadero sentido de la creación del artista consista en extender un velo sobre el sinsentido de la vida.

Para mí solo hay un infortunio: ¡tener que vivir y no poder crear!

One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine event,To which the whole creation moves.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one, and there is nothing above it by way of final condition.

It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent: - and the spiritual precedes the material.

Now, if God made the clouds so beautiful, did He not mean us to gaze upon them and be thankful for them?

When I make a picture, I make love.

I am that which began;Out of me the years roll;Out of me God and man;I am equal and whole;God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily; I am the soul.

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

Death is in the nature of the universe, Barker. Death is only the operation of a mechanism. All the universe has been running down from the moment of its creation. Did you expect a machine to care what it acted upon? Death is like sunlight or a falling star; they don't care where they fall.

Imagine if you made something and then you always had to be seen through what you'd made, as if the thing you'd made became you.