Quotes About Creation

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Some people wait for a miracle to start living their lives happily. Others, use that time and create the miracle themselves.

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

Any time is the time to make a poem.

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

You know what I think, Sarah? I think that when God made all those animals, He was practicing. He made them all different shapes and sizes, and He just kept on practicing. For when He made man. But He had to practice a lot, first. That's why the animals are all so different-looking. What do you think? 'Sometimes,' Sarah said, 'I think He didn't practice enough.

Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios.

Despite all ideological attempts to transcend the mode in clothes, it is the lust of the eye for change, the power of the eye to make instant associations, and its need to demand and to create and combine images that hold clothing to significant and delicate shifts of dynamic visual form.

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up.

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

when humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.

when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born—and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.

Taking kids outside to love God and nature is just about the most Jesus-y thing we can do. Jesus was nearly always outside with his disciples, or alone with the stars. To take kids to a beach, even one that is littered, it to bring them to an altar (a big one) surrounded by the blue-grey ocean billowing outward like a skirt, flecked with sunlight, like foil or diamonds.

The medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart said that if the soul could have known God without the world, God never would have created the world.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until finally he finds out what it is.

In many spiritual and wisdom paths, it is written that God created us to have company and to be God's loving eyes and hands on earth. But in certain African Christian catechisms it says that God created us because He thought we would like it.