Quotes About Creation

Bottom of the pool: if you want folks to choose you—each and every time—then the greater value you have created had better be obvious.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

If there is a constructive way forward for Christians in the midst of our broken but also beautiful cultures, it will require us to recover these two biblical postures of cultivation and creation. And that recovery will involve revisiting the biblical story itself, where we discover that God is more intimately and eternally concerned with culture than we have yet come to believe.

To be Christian is to stake our lives on this belief: the only cultural goods that ultimately matter are the ones that love creates.

The biblical record suggests that we need to rest not just one day a week but for longer times at longer intervals, up to the forty-nine-year cycle called the "jubilee" that allowed both land and farmers to be rejuvenated. But if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path. Creation, even on a human scale, is meant to end with the glad exclamation, "It is very good.

What is most needed in our time are Christians who are deeply serious about cultivating and creating but who wear that seriousness lightly—who are not desperately trying to change the world but who also wake up every morning eager to create.

The beginning of culture and the beginning of humanity are one and the same because culture is what we were made to do. There is no withdrawing from culture. Culture is inescapable. And that's a good thing.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Fear always accompanies the making of art, generated by the shock of seeing an idea taking its form. A sculpture in the mind is safe and secure--the actual work rarely behaves as intended.

My art helps make sense of things.

A tension develops between what I want and what is emerging. This tension is important to the feeling of the piece.

In the midst of nature's savagery, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

No descansó al séptimo día. Al séptimo día se cansó.

I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.

So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.

You're nothing but the furious invention of my virgin nights.

But surely Adonai, creator of everything good, would create nothing unless it had a reason for being.

He called you, He fashioned you, and He will use you. Obey the nudging of His Spirit

An eye for beautiful things," I finished. "Surely there's nothing wrong with appreciating God's glorious creations." "Not as long as those glorious creations are yours to appreciate," Rei countered. "You should be more careful. Some women are like suckerfish. If you catch one, there are sure to be ugly things attached.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.