Quotes About Creation

The reason something becomes retrospectively significant in a far-flung future is detached from the reason it was significant at the time of its creation—and that's almost always due to a recalibration of social ideologies that future generations will accept as normative.

Creation is important, please don't misunderstand. However, I suggest that His greatest glory is His redemption of us and the earth and the heavens, because that is the focus of most of the rest of the Bible. We discover that probably 90% of the Scriptures, including the entire Book of Revelation, is devoted to God's redemption of His creation.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Grace says, We all die. She says, The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. I am Ozymandias, king of kings.

Honey, times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people but not made to last forever.

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.