Quotes About Creation

The present is the blocks with which we build.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.

Thy wish was father to that thought.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?

Such stuff the world is made of.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her - and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.

Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it.

the filmmaker must always seek a new tension with reality and constantly negate himself in order to continue to create a new artistic involvement. (?shima 1992: 48, translated by Dawn Lawson)

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry us while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

Po tom višku koji nosi svako umetni?ko delo kao neki trag tajanstvene saradnje izme?u prirode i umetnika, vidi se demonsko poreklo umetnosti. Postoji legenda da ?e Antihrist, kada se bude pojavio na zemlji, stvarati sve što je i Bog stvorio, samo sa ve?om veštinom i sa više savršenstva [...] Možda je umetnik prete?a Antihrista. Možda se hiljade i hiljade nas igramo Antihrista, kao što se deca, usred mira, igraju rata.

Ideal umjetnika: tiho živjeti i biti u sve dane zaposlen stvaranjem u najraznoli?nijim formama, ali stvaranjem jedino i davanjem uvijek, da se nema vremena da živi i da se ima od svih radosti samo jednu jedinu: veliku radost stvaranja, a potom mirno iš?eznuti i ostaviti se u boji, u liniji, u rije?i, u gestu, u zvuku, da bi se svijetlilo vijekovima i grijalo svoje i svakog.

Želja je kao vetar, premešta prašinu sa jednog mesta na drugo, zamra?uje ponekad njome ceo vidik, ali na kraju stišava se i pada i ostavlja staru i ve?nu sliku sveta iza sebe. Trajna dela na zemlji ostvaruju se božjom voljom, a ?ovek je samo njemo slepo i pokorno oru?e. Delo koje se ra?a iz želje, ?ovekove želje, ili ne doživi ostvarenje ili nije trajno, u svakom slu?aju nije dobro.

We create forms, like a second order of nature, we arrest youth, retain a glance which in nature would have changed or vanished a moment later, we seize and separate lightning movements which no one would ever have seen and we leave them, with all their mysterious meaning, to the eyes of future generations.

Sve može biti. Ali jedno ne može: ne može biti da ?e posve i zauvek nestati velikih i umnih a duševnih ljudi koji ?e za božju ljubav podizati trajne gra?evine, da bi zemlja bila lepša i ?ovek na njoj živeo lakše i bolje. Kad bi njih nestalo, to bi zna?ilo da ?e i božja ljubav ugasnuti i nestati sa sveta. To ne može biti.

Sve može biti. Ali jedno ne može: ne može biti da ?e posve i zauvek nestati velikih i umnih, a duševnih ljudi koji ?e za božju ljubav podizati trajne gra?evine, da bi zemlja bila ljepša i ?ovek na njoj živio lakše i bolje. Kad bi njih nestalo, to bi zna?ilo da ?e i božja ljubav ugasnuti i nestati sa sveta. To ne može biti.

Whether or not we know what we are creating or how we are creating it, when things do not turn out the way we desire, our human instincts drive us to look for someone to blame.

It is only as a unity in diversity that the Christian community will become an inviting community in a society which is otherwise pretty uniform. Creation is motley and diverse, and the new creation even more so.