Quotes About Creation

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

In the morning of the world," he said, "when the dew still lay upon the Garden, man was created so that there might be some one to enjoy it. In order that he might relish beauty, he was given a soul; and having a soul, he was given speech, since without speech, it is impossible to understand such abstractions as the soul. That was a mistake, but I do not see how it could have been avoided.

Once a person exists, not everything compatible with his overall existence being a net plus can be done, even by those who created him. An existing person has claims, even against those whose purpose in creating him was to violate those claims.

War is to men as maternity is to women.

In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Teorin om arv via miljö ger oss en ny modell för hur vi ska se på erfarenheter; vi varseblir, tolkar, väljer, modifierar och skapar aktivt erfarenheter som korrelerar med våra genetiska anlag.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

What it all comes down to, as it so often does, is the very beginning of the universe. This, say the big-heads of the scientific fraternity, all began with a big bang. Wrong! The universe, in fact, began with the sound of a duck call, followed by a whistle and an enormous cosmic wind-break. Had anyone been around at the time to overhear these sounds, they would probably have received a pretty good indication of what God had up his sleeve, amongst other places.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.

try to think of God as a vast, infinite, unified field of perfect love—and nothing else. (Equivalent terms would be joy or bliss; in Sanskrit, ananda.) Since very few humans have ever experienced such love, it's almost impossible to imagine. But if God is perfect love, and God created us "in His image," then we must also be perfect love.

Talent works, genius creates.

Y al crearte a ti mismo en un nuevo lugar, llegas a conocerte de un modo que no hubiera sido posible si no hubieras dejado tu Hogar.

Nordstrom is looking to hire entrepreneurs—empowered self-starters, who seize opportunities to create and build their own businesses; to be franchisees within the larger Nordstrom franchise.

All For a Day" All day I have written words: My subject has been that. Words. And I am wrong. And the words. I burn Three pages of them. Words. And the moon, moonlight, that too I burn. —A poem remains. But in the words, in the words In the fire that is now words. I eat the words that remain. And am eaten. By nothing, By all that I have not made.

Mustn't all significant action be preceded by an incubation period?...the waiting period is not just a delay to be endured in order to reach the right moment. It is... the very creator of that moment.

I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth...

The world is your thought.

the "I" is first created, and then the world.

As a spark proceeds from fire, "individuality" emanates from the Absolute Self.

Without the "seer," there are no "objects". Seeing and creating are one and the same process

There is really no creation, and no dissolution.

When I understood this much about the People, I realized how truly different their reality was. My reality is made in my head; I create roles for myself, I create a structure that requires certain activities and prohibits others. I live in time; I have an agenda. Their existence had no reality until they lived it.