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Quotes About Creation

Success is a bitter fruit: sooner or later, what you have created turns against you, becomes your torment.
~ Henry Miller
Out of nothingness arises the sign of infinity; beneath the ever-rising spirals slowly sinks the gaping hole. The land and the water make numbers joined, a poem written with flesh and stronger than steel or granite. Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown…
~ Henry Miller
In a world grown paralyzed with introspection and constipated by delicate mental meals this brutal exposure of the substantial body comes as a vitalizing current of blood. The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
~ Henry Miller
I had to learn, as Balzac did, that one must write volumes before signing ones own name.
~ Henry Miller
On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
~ Henry Miller
Make me into any fantastic shape, use all your art, exhaust your lung-power - still I shall only be a thing fabricated, at the best a beautiful cultured soul.
~ Henry Miller
İster kabul edilsin, ister edilmesin, sanatç?n?n kafas? sürekli olarak dünyay? yeniden yaratma, insan?n safl???n? yeniden yaratma düÅŸüncesiyle meÅŸguldür. Bunun ötesinde, insan?n safl???n? yaln?zca özgürlüÄŸünü kazanarak yeniden elde edebileceÄŸini bilir. ÖzgürlüÄŸün buradaki anlam? otomasyonun ölümüdür.
~ Henry Miller
Like Boticelli's Venus, you rose from the sea and are still all foam!
~ Henry Miller
There are no more books to be written, thank God.
~ Henry Miller
I understand full well that it is not the mob which creates the films we see—not technically, at any rate. But in a deeper sense it is the mob which actually creates the films. For the first time in the history of art the mob has dictated what the artist should do.
~ Henry Miller
Man's task is to make of himself a work of art!
~ Henry Miller
until the heart bursts and there is nothing left but a blinding, scorching light, the radiant light that carries off the fecundated seeds of the stars. The story of art which roots lie in massacre.
~ Henry Miller
Seni düzüyorum Tania, düzülmüÅŸ kalas?n diye.
~ Henry Miller
We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great is the art of beginning.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art is the child of Nature.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only Only to love and to be loved again, he breathed forth his spirit Into the slumbering dust, and upright standing, it laid its Hand on its heart, and felt it was warm with a flame out of heaven Quench, oh quench not that flame! It is the breath of your being
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great is the art of beginning, but even greater is the art of ending.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
~ Heraclitus
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
~ Herman Melville
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
~ Herman Melville
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart forever; the vulture the very creature he creates.
~ Herman Melville
Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.
~ Herman Melville
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything.
~ Herman Melville