Quotes About Creation

Our most successful bubbles, our only successful ones are doubtless those that are the least worked. For can one work on a bubble? Surely not, - unless (carefully) with the very breath that gives it birth. It is only necessary to blow it with an even enough breath, with just the right pretentiousness, a movement of the soul at once measured and persistent, yet not too much so - until it detaches itself quasi-spontaneously from the pipe.

And indeed what are the heavens, the earth, nay every creature, but Hieroglyphics and Emblems of [God's] Glory?

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming

Quien no ama con sus cinco sentidos a una mujer hermosa, no estima a la naturaleza su mayor cuidado y su mayor obra

Only our imagination has the power to create the world you want and whatever gives you true joy. Beware of those who tell you to face reality and let go of your imagination. All they may truly ask for is that you shift your imagination from what you want to what they want.

There are blasphemies of creation that can not be described, and the thing which rose up to claim the escaping fragments of its dismantled prey was of that order.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

Though the body is its genesis, a poem is the vision of a process Out of ceaseless motion in edgeless space Carved in space, vision your poor eye's single armor against winter spring summer fall

After sex & metaphysics,— … what? What you have made.

Liturgy is essentially a service that is rendered for the public good. We saw that both individuals and groups may undertake a service project for the good of their community. Using this basic definition, liturgy is also a service that God undertakes for the good of his creation, especially his human creatures.

One man, one film.

Spirit baptism is a baptism into the love of God that sanctifies, renews, and empowers until Spirit baptism turns all of creation into the final dwelling place of God.

Your decisions participate in the creation of the version of reality you will live.

Making art is an act of love and making love to the world.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

The belief in a thing makes it happen.

Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.

Fear begets fiction and fiction gives a shape to fear