Quotes About Creation

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

Effective antibiotics are a linchpin of modern medicine; without them, it all falls apart. We are financing the creation of virulent biological weapons that one day may be turned against us. This alone should be sufficient reason to create more hygienic conditions for animals.

Without realizing it, they're like clay telling the potter that they know more about pottery than he does and that they can form themselves into pots on their own (Is 29:16).

By virtue of being created by God, the world knows how to live and is under obligation to live that way, but it has declined. It has thus "profaned" the earth, made it something God no longer wishes to have anything to do with, something God could not continue to have anything to do with without compromising who he is.

Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

You believed this river pebble was a star stone, so it became one.

The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

A work of infinite moment depends on a moment of time.