Quotes About Creation

Our longing for community seems to be a part of the image of the One Who made us, a part of the divine image whispered into us when we were whispered into being in the first place.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

A film is born in my head. I try to make it, but I never succeed. What I want to do is impossible. It's beyond my capacity.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

A quote by film director Robert Bresson (1901-1999), 'Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen' (as cited in The Independent I, 2019), encapsulates why, although there appears to be a gap between peers' early language skills, it is necessary to go beyond rhetoric and supposition.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.[3]

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

Robert Bresson

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

if the poet becomes what-is, then what-is (and no one else) becomes the author of the poem.

So, take, and use thy work: Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past the aim! My times be in thy hand! Perfect the cup as planned! Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same!

Fool! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be: Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.