Quotes About Creation

Consciousness—not the personal you—created your body and your surroundings that provide support for that body to exist.

Creator and Creation are singular—that Source or God is all; the dark and the light, male and female, creation and destruction, death and resurrection. In that sense, there is nothing that exists or occurs that is not Source.

No matter the stated purpose, sacred ceremony inevitably helps heal the fundamental spiritual wound—the illusion of separateness from the Creator and Creation. By our participation, we're reassured that we're not autonomous from that which sustains us materially and spiritually, and reminded of our place within the vast and intricate network of life.

It's something of a parodox that film, the art that most resembles our daydreams, is the one most difficult to bring into existence.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded, bathrobed guy in the sky was supposed to have pulled off? If there was no God who said 'Let there be light,' where did we get all that light?

Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.

Hope does not fall from the sky. We create hope ourselves.

Usually, the things that are quickly slapped together become the big hits, rather than the ones you would painstakingly deliberate on.

I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.

For me acting is passion, emotion, and creating the character and the whole world around the character. We enjoy all that. Sleeping on time, eating healthy, you are what your lifestyle is.

When we started making 'Where You Live', I bought a bunch of Polaroid cameras in so that people could record the experience. Some of those pictures are in the CD sleeve.

The landscape of professional creation continues to get more complex. Organizations and platforms of all sorts are vying for a slice of the value created by the relationship between creators and their audiences.

It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the end is. I don't start at the beginning. It's like playing Tetris in my head in a very slow kind of way. All the shapes join up.

I find that I am much slower in the beginning of a book. I am thinking of the plot, of the characters and who they are, and where they are going. I often throw out a lot of the writing I start with, because the characters and plot improve as I write. Or perhaps I should say it is my hope they will improve as I write.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.