Quotes About Creation

words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought it can be filmed.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

After all,we are partners in this land,co-signers of a covenant.At my touch the wildbraid of creationtrembles.

The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.

Much of what we call our 'personalities' is actually the mosaic of our choices for self-protection plus our plan to get something out of the love we were created for.

Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We're so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.

for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.

post-human intelligence might be made by us ourselves.

Toutes nos créations originales et puissantes sont le fruit d'une concentration, d'une monomanie sublime, proche de la folie.

I saw how the idea, still colourless, nothing but pure and flowing heat, streamed from the furnace of his impulsive excitement like the molten metal to make a bell, then gradually, as it cooled, took shape, I saw how that shape rounded out powerfully and revealed itself, until at last the words rang from it and gave human language to poetic feeling, just as the clapper gives the bell its sound.

pero a quien ha conocido la embriaguez exquisita, dichosa y pura de la creación, le repugna el aguardiente como un matarratas.

Fundamental in Hölderlin's scheme is the idea that poesy is indispensable to the world; nay, more, that it is not merely a creation within the cosmos, but itself creates the cosmos.

No basta que el artista esté inspirado para que produzca. Debe, además, trabajar y trabajar para llevar esa inspiración a la forma perfecta. La fórmula verdadera de la creación artística no es, pues, inspiración o trabajo, sino inspiración más trabajo, exaltación más paciencia, deleite creador más tormento creador.

If today I were to counsel a young writer who is still unsure of his way, I would try to persuade him first to adapt or translate a sizable work. In all sacrificing service there is more assurance for the beginner than in his own creation, and nothing that one has ever done with devotion is done in vain.

Por primera vez ese escalofrío que envuelve el nacimiento tanto de un hombre como de una palabra penetró en mi ánimo asustado de admiración y ya lleno de felicidad.

the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful.

Toda nuestra fantasía y toda nuestra lógica no pueden facilitarnos sino una idea insuficiente del origen de una obra de arte.

Solo quien conoce las profundidades, conoce la vida completa. Solo el retroceso da al hombre toda su energía para avanzar. El genio creador necesita esta forzada soledad temporal para medir desde la lejanía de la exclusión el horizonte y la altura de su verdadera tarea.

Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.

The created world, including a major portion of the human mind, is seen as evil by the Gnostic primarily because it distracts consciousness away from knowledge of the Divine.

We were so tired of death and destruction," Colonel Reed said. "We wanted to do something beautiful.

You are a self and an other. Your 'others' are in part your own creation. This in turn affects and shapes your experiences of self. Your levels of self-awareness and self-acceptance largely shape how you perceive others. p.231