Quotes About Creation

Once the web has lost its charm, its terms lose theirs; suddenly they seem contingent and open to revision. For those epi-predators who work with the signifiers themselves rather than the things they supposedly signify, language is not a medium that helps us see the true, the real, the natural. Language is a tool assembled by creatures with "no way" trying to make a world that will satisfy their needs; it is a tool those same creatures can disassemble if it fails them.

We may not have the power to profess our gifts as the artist does, and yet we come to recognize, and in a sense to receive, the endowments of our being through the agency of his creation.

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.

And then there are fossils. Whenever anybody tries to tell me that they believe it took place in seven days, I reach for a fossil and go "fossil!" And if they keep talking I throw it just over their head.

I would love to have the faith to believe that the world was created in seven days... but I have thoughts... and that can really fuck up the faith thing, just ask any Catholic priest.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy.

I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.