Quotes About Creation

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night.

It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together, he said. I like to see a thing finished.

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in order to help him remember his colleagues at CERN. "The Web is more a social creation than a technical one," he explains.

Because God's reality is reality, there is no way to escape it. Because it is goodness itself, there is no way to defy it with anything but evil. When it comes to the politics of rebellion and change, the rebel can either seek to work in partnership with God's creation or find himself outside it and thus in hell.

To be a human being is to be a continual work of art.

The world had no beauty of its own. The beauty of the world was created in the human experience, in me. The very fact of beauty, the very idea that something could be beautiful, only existed in me. The point was not to see the world....The point was to experience the world.

Metaphor is even built into the basic structure of creation. DNA is a code. A code is a kind of language. DNA expresses an idea—the idea of a man and a woman together—and brings it into being as you or me.

Creation is a fractal: it is metaphors all the way down. The three-part Logos creates man, man creates metaphors for reality, reality is a metaphor for the Logos.

Creation is not abandoned by God, it is not godless, for apart from God it would not be at all; it is not deprived of grace for it owes its existence to grace. Rather, creation is graced, it is holy; in creation God may be encountered.

So I did something that you're not supposed to do, one more addition to an expanding universe of said things.

If we are honest with ourselves, we can list almost everything that's ever happened to us - and see how we helped create it.

The flexibility of the compilation, the ability to create bespoke texts from segments of other works, was one of the key features distinguishing the manuscript book world from the age of print, where the order and nature of texts was established before they came into the hands of the purchaser. This loss of autonomy in the creation of books would be one of the major sources of regret among established collectors in the transition from manuscript to print in the fifteenth century.

And there is no realer man than I," Vanniv replied with a nod. "Excepting for the fact that I am a magically created copy of the original Vanniv, of course, and thus completely fake.

All production flows have a basic characteristic: the material becomes more valuable as it moves through the process.

I am going to build something big for you.

Monsters make monsters make monsters.

A world between my fingers.

We live in a void, Prim. There is us and nothing else that is real, except that which we make. Reason is one of those things we invent to help us find our way. We have to find some goal. I have you and a comfortable life, and our family.

S tim je tipovima isto tako, podsje?aju na zapo?eto i malkice nedovršeno. Kao da su se zaustavili i ?ekali na nastavak evolucije ili stvaranja, kao da su ?ekali što ?e se još dogoditi i živjeli u neprestanoj sadašnjosti, koja se stalno preobli?uje u prošlost.

The degree to which you will ever be financially compensated is inexorably linked to the obvious greater value (OGV) that you create for someone else.