1,364 Quotes About Creation

The Evangelium has not abrogated legends; it has hallowed them, especially the 'happy ending'. The Christian has still to work, with mind as well as body, to suffer, hope, and die; but he may now perceive that all his bents and faculties have a purpose, which can be redeemed. So great is the bounty with which he has been treated that he may now, perhaps, fairly dare to guess that in Fantasy he may actually assist in the effoliation and multiple enrichment of creation.

I sincerely believe we are created by a Creator to be creative. This is part of His image we bear, this bringing forth of beauty, life, newness...It looks like art, it looks like music, it looks like community, it looks like splendor. That thing in you that wants to make something beautiful? It is holy.

Bisogna amare i propri personaggi. Altrimenti, sconsiglio a chiunque di prendere la penna in mano: saranno guai grossi, sappiatelo.

It is due to a collective human aggregation that we are able to create things of deniably and undeniably inherent nature that would have otherwise surfaced in some other medium and probably not as clearly. Creation is the space in which we are woven. The act of creating is a channel from that space.

If a person loves something above all else, if he values the work of his heart and hands, then he should naturally, without hesitation, pour into it his whole soul, undivided and pure. Great art demands nothing less.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Some things do not come to us automatically; we must induce them to come our way.

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

... those who seek the lost Lord will find traces of His being and beauty in all that men have made, from music and poetry and sculpture to the gingerbread men in the pâtisseries, from the final calculation of the pure mathematician to the first delighted chalk drawing of a small child.