Quotes About Creation

With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.

It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don't get horny enough to actually to father them.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.

This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life.

Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can't stiffen up enough to create them.

The man is nothing, the work--all.

Le monde est l'Å"uvre d'un Dieu en délire.

El autor debe estar en su libro como Dios en su universo, presente en todas partes, pero siempre invisible.

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Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.

It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself, but to move in an entire universe of your own creation.

Voltaire lui-même l'a dit : « Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer.

Beauty is the object of all my efforts.

Do you know how I picture God myself? he said. As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who scatters millions of worlds into space, just as one single fish would deposit its spawn in the sea. He creates because it is His function as God to do so, but He does not know what He is doing and is stupidly prolific in His work and is ignorant of the combinations of all kinds which are produced by His scattered germs.

Though separated from what they produce, people nevertheless produce every detail of their world with ever-increasing power. They thus also find themselves increasingly separated from that world. The closer their life comes to being their own creation, the more they are excluded from that life.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Entrepreneurship is about doing, not learning to do.

The biggest daily challenge of social media is finding enough content to share. We call this "feeding the Content Monster." There are two ways to do this: content creation and content curation.

Crea como un dios. Dirige como un rey. Trabaja como un esclavo.» Constantin Brancusi

El arte abstracto no existe. Siempre tienes que empezar por algo y, luego, puedes eliminar cualquier rasgo de realidad.» Pablo Picasso

A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed , a part of me but departed from me, I lost it alive, living but separate; and if it does not leave me, it is incomplete, insufficient, and half-dead that I keep it.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Once apparently the chief concern and masterpiece of the gods, the human race now begins to bear the aspect of an accidental by-product of their vast, inscrutable and probably nonsensical operations.

When, long ago, the gods created Earth In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest to man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER.