Quotes About Creation

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.

We create our fate every day we live.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

Time is the author of authors.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

The idea is in my head; to put it down is nothing.

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

I paint from the top down. First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written, the world would end.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things: a painting and a photograph.

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.