Quotes About Creation

At the risk of repetition, I mean that God (or "the sacred" or "Spirit," terms that I use synonymously) is a reality known in human experience, and not simply a human creation or projection.

En un mot, nos mains tâchent de faire dans la nature, pour ainsi dire, une autre nature.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

The Infinite struck the void with the sound of the Word.

Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, everyone births things into reality.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.

If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first in your head, and then you make it real.

I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

Perhaps they'll say, These things are not real. They are phantasmagoria. They were made by dreams, and now that no one is dreaming them any longer they are crumbling away.

What we consider real is also imagined; every life lived is also an inner life, a life created.

What she read was a series of short connected lyrics, "Isis in Darkness." The Egyptian Queen of Heaven and Earth was wandering in the Underworld, gathering up pieces of the murdered and dismembered body of her lover Osiris. At the same time, it was her own body she was putting back together; and it was also the physical universe. She was creating the universe by an act of love.

Maybe acting as if she believes in such a future will help to create it, which is the kind of thing the Gardeners used to say.

Per il Paradiso abbiamo bisogno di Te. L'Inferno ce lo possiamo fare da soli.

Roz added sheep to Heaven. They would be outside the window, naturally.

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.