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Quotes About Creation

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
~ Thomas Carlyle
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
~ Thomas Carlyle
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".
~ Thomas Carlyle
Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product
~ Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Man is without Duty round him; except it be "to make the Constitution." He is without Heaven above him, or Hell beneath him; he has no God in the world.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the Creator, they are His undefiled works; and the mind is cast into contemplation of eternal things.
~ Thomas Cole
thou buildest upon the bosom of darkness, out of the fantastic imagery of the brain, cities and temples.
~ Thomas de Quincey
For many years I had been aware that women were not only most important creations in the universe, but the nearest approach that man could reach to the divine.
~ Gutzon Borglum
Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.
~ Max Levchin
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
~ Jeanette Winterson
But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.
~ Alison Lohman
In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
~ Harlan Coben
Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.
~ Sophie Marceau
What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
~ Richard Thompson
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
~ Erykah Badu
Necessity creates everything in my life.
~ Christian Louboutin
When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.
~ Sylvie Guillem
A negative is never finished.
~ Sigmar Polke