Quotes About Creation

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble, and I will steal from everywhere to do it.

The End of every maker is himself.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control, almost like God creating something.

In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

One glance of Thine creates a day.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. ... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

A garden is a lovesome thing - God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Fern grot - The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not. - Not God in gardens! When the sun is cool? Nay, but I have a sign! 'Tis very sure God walks in mine.