Quotes About Creation

Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek the sunlight. The Universe did not create Life in the hope that the failure of the majority would underscore the success of the few.

So often what prevents us from living an admirable life is the catering of our minds, which pester us with long outdated doubts and despair. Our minds are truly one of the greatest creations in God's world, but they are so easily disoriented and set spinning.

The moment you bring attention, you are creating something, and creation has life and energy.

It is odd that the Bible says, 'God created man,' whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, 'The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,' whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.

Creation is the product of bliss, and bliss is its sustainer; to bliss it returns.

Among creations I am the beginning, the middle, and also the end, O Arjuna, I am the science of the Self, and I am the logic of all arguments.

Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.

I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out.

There's something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.