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Quotes About Creation

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
As a practitioner, you can create holiness. Holiness cannot be bestowed on us by someone else. ... We are a saint when we can produce holiness.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We produce ourselves, we product our own future. We have to offer our best thoughts, speech and actions. Mindfulness helps us to know whether we're producing the right thing for future and helps us remember that what we produce is us, is our continuation.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If you have enough spiritual strength, you will give birth to a spiritual child, and through your life and practice, you continue giving birth, even after you die.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
you are part of the universe; you are made of stars
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
With nonattachment, we see both being and nonbeing as creations of our mind, and we ride the wave of birth and death. We don't mind birth. We don't mind death. [...] Reality transcends both birth and death.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The universe and the person who creates the universe are not two different entities. Some Christian theologians say that God is the ground of being. This is quite close to Buddhism. But then Buddhism asks the question, If God is the ground of being, then what is the ground of nonbeing?
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
All phenomena are neither produced nor destroyed, because they are in a constant process of manifesting.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
~ Leif Garrett
It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
~ Oscar Isaac
It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together.
~ Chick Corea
Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.
~ Issey Miyake
It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
~ Barry Took
Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration.
~ Elizabeth Diller
One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
~ Joel Edgerton
You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.
~ Ross Lovegrove
I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
~ Harold Pinter
God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge.
~ Robin Sloan
The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished.
~ Neil Gaiman
No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
~ Evan Bayh
I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters,and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her.
~ Noelle Stevenson
I'm just kind of trying to make the best stuff I can make.
~ Teddy Geiger