Quotes About Creation

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Men might rule the world, but women created life, made it grow within them. Without the womb there was no kingdom to govern, and a king was as useless as the next man.

It is evident that everything which does not exist at first and then exists, is determined by something other than itself.

Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.

God created everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through" (Paul Valery).

what we call the world is a product of some mind whose symbolic procedures construct the world."71

God created him first with two faces, and separated them" (1:27).

We invent for ourselves the major part of experience," Nietzsche says in Beyond Good and Evil.

People had contested the whole basis of the idea of God's power on earth, and they had done it with reasoning that was beautiful and compelling. Darwin said creation stories were a fairy tale. Freud said we had power over ourselves. Spinoza said there were no miracles, no angels, no need to pray to anything outside ourselves: God was us, and nature. Emil Durkheim said humans fantasized religion to give themselves a sense of security.

With doubts about its ability to survive being expressed both within and outside its freshly drawn boundaries, Pakistan's insecurities were given full play in fashioning the nation's history. Using the "two- nation" theory as their crutch, state- sponsored historians wrote histories for schools and colleges as well as for more general consumption that highlighted the tyranny of the Hindu community in order to justify the creation of Pakistan.

others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans—I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before…. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

There is no one creator, but there is the realm of creation.

Kendi hammaddesini, kendi kabiliyet kudret ve ihtiraslar?yla yo?urmu?tur. Bu suretle ve bu ak?? içinde, her tarihi ?ahsiyet gibi o da, kendini yaratm??t?r. Zaten 'Tek Adam' demek, bu demek de?il midir?

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

What is the tiniest habit I could create that would have the most meaning? Write down a few answers even if you don't intend to create any of those habits right now. The more answers you come up with, the more you are practicing this skill.