Creation Quotes

Leave a space and something will fill it.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

What is and what is not create each other.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Create a life you can't wait to live.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

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

There is no story unless you've written it.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of your desires is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button).

I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space.The best way to predict the future is to create it.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want.

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

I would model well-being by presenting myself as a high-energy person who loves what I am doing and who is thrilled to be able to offer books, tapes, and products designed to make people feel good. I would explain that they are in a store filled with this kind of energy and that creating such a space is exactly why I got into the business in the first place. If you want to feel good, then my store is the place you should visit on a regular basis. I would stay very informed about what's out there and make sure I carry many things with very high energy.

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

Give shape, artist! don't talk!Your poem be but a breath.

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.