Quotes About Creation

Things will change, Father. They must. And art can help create the change.

I had brought something out of the earth, and it was used to make something beautiful.

Nature is God's work, so I say nature motifs are just as spiritual, just as inspirational, as biblical images.

If I don't love the feelings I have while creating those windows, I'm only working for coin and not from soul.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. —John Banville

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic

the Theory of Other Worlds. Simply put, it said that when knowledge or power went out of this world it did two things: first, it created another place; and second, it left a hole, a door between this world where it had once existed and the new place it had made.

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic. [As quoted on WritersServices , 6 March 2012]

Is it disrespectful to the House to love some Statues more than others? I sometimes ask Myself this question. It is my belief that the House itself loves and blesses equally everything that it has created. Should I try to do the same? Yet, at the same time, I can see that it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.

This is how God made me. You are how God made you. All God's chillun are made how God made 'em. You think God made a mistake, take it up with Him.

equality ends with the Creation, and that all attempts to enshrine this equality in our government and enforce it through legislation must be treated as abominations to G-d [sic] that verge on Sovietism"…

Ha, ha —Job 39:25

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

And He was the one who invented marriage so that the blazing fire of romantic love could become something even more beautiful - a pulsing, red-hot ember of covenant love in marriage. Why did He do it? For the same reason that He made sunsets and mountain ranges and fireflies! Because He's good. Because He wants to give us a million different opportunities to see just how wonderful He is.

She was pretty sure whatever had made the things hadn't been human.

An argument can be made—a rigorous, persuasive argument—that every good new thing results from a teeming complexity.

I can't understand why God made every tiny snowflake different and all these men the same.

Every living thing suffers transfiguration. Yes, until the creation of Eve, Adam had fondled beasts.

The writer doesn't write for the reader. He doesn't write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Perhaps it takes a hybrid to help create a body of writing where once there was only oral tradition.

Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree.