Quotes About Creation

In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.

In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human languages, what may be called their granite.

How do we know that the creation of worlds is not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings

Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it. What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. The good God, having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected.

It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. Sometimes even several of them at a time.

God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.

A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!

This book is a drama whose first character is the Infinite. Man is the second.

And blossoming, odour-giving creation, loving and charming, and the grand sky golden with morning spread about La Tourgue and the guillotine, and seemed to say to man, Behold my work, and yours.

If there is no sun,one must be made

she focused on the pale blue yarn and the way the knitting needles dove in and out of the soft strands, creating every moment something that hadn't existed before.

hammers falling

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

You must see what He sees. Not the view of the mortal, but a glorious world washed clean in magical light and dazzling with colour. You must copy in miniature the world He has drawn. One where everything is carefully chosen, the profusion of nature simplified, men and women incomparably beautiful, everything as precious and perfect as He willed them to be.... The artist is closest of all to the Creator.

self-annihilation is necessary for high art

Sixteen hundred years ago Saint Augustine instructed, basically, Don't be stupid. "Shall we say, then," he wrote about Genesis, "there was such a sense of hearing in that formless and shapeless creation, whatever it was, to which God thus uttered a sound when He said, 'Let there be light'? Let such absurdities have no place in our thoughts.

Werfen Sie das häßliche Kind weg, gnädige Frau; ich mache Ihnen ein neues, ein viel schöneres.

To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.

every human culture is created by fear

If God had meant for us to have fiberglass boats, he would have planted fiberglass trees.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just learned that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.