Quotes About Creation

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

The history of nature . . . begins with good, for it is God's work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man's work.

If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all.

If there is any science man really needs it is the one I teach, of how to occupy properly that place in creation that is assigned to man, and how to learn from it what one must be in order to be a man.

reason only perceives that which it produces after its own design;

Like a patchwork quilt, I realize now that it's the culmination of small beautiful moments that makes the quilt of our lives so beautiful. And even though we haven't had as much time to create the fabric for the squares of ours, I know without a doubt that I will leave behind an entire quilt of beautiful moments.

2 June 1942. Never forget that the war will be over and that the entire historical side will fade away. Try to create as much as possible: things, debates Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that will interest people in 1952 or 2052.

Odiava la guerra, che minacciava ben più della vita o del suo benessere: distruggeva in ogni istante l'universo della creazione romanzesca, l'unico in cui si sentisse felice, simile a uno squillo di tromba discordante e terribile che facesse crollare le fragili muraglie di cristallo erette con tanta fatica tra lui e il mondo esterno

Art must invent new beauty, not play with what has already been made, religion must invent God and never rest.

Suffering is no scandal. It is natural. Nature appoints it. All creation suffers. It suffers from having been created, if from nothing else. It suffers from being divided from God.' 'Yours is a melancholy sort of religion, Dennis. I'm afraid I don't believe in God.' 'Ah, you do. But you do not know His name. And I who know His name am only the better of you by one little word. Here is the salmon pool.

The true rose, the miracle of nature, owed nothing to the hand of man.

And suffering we know breeds images, it breeds the most beautiful images of all.

Art is not cosy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Suffering is no scandal. It is natural. Nature appoints it. All creation suffers. It suffers from having been created, if from nothing else. It suffers from being divided from God.

we have futures. That means we can make things true…

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

Per me [la creazione] è come una giornata d'uragano quando la tramontana s'abbatte fischiando dai monti. L'arte per me è un tormento, angoscioso quando il lavoro va male, estasiante quando va bene: ma sempre mi possiede senza scampo. Al termine della mia giornata, sono un guscio vuoto: tutto ciò che v'era in me, è passato nel marmo o nell'affresco. Quindi non mi resta più nulla da dare altrove.

?tiin?a este arta de a crea iluzii acceptabile.

A work of art meant growth from the particular to the universal. To a work of art, time brought timelessness.

God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created.

Art destroys the life.

ViaÈ›a îns??i îndreapt? spre om o fa?? goal?, nep?s?toare, descurajant?, pe care nu se citeÈ™te nimic, ca È™i pe pânza asta goal?. Dar omul nu se sperie de acest gol, p??eÈ™te plin de încredere È™i de curaj, se zbate, cl?deÈ™te, creeaz?, È™i pân? la urm?, pânza nu va mai r?mâne goal?, ci se acoper? cu formele bogate ale vieÈ›ii.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.