Creation Quotes

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are...

~ Edith Hamilton

Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess.

~ Steven Redhead

If we want to know what God wants from us as Christians, we must have a firm biblical grasp of His intention in making man in the first place.

~ Dan Phillips

I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.I Name you Calvin.I Name you Mr. Jenkins.I Name you Proginoskes.I fill you with Naming.Be!Be, butterfly and behemoth,be galaxy and grasshopper,star and sparrow,you matter,you are,be!Be caterpillar and comet,Be porcupine and planet,sea sand and solar system,sing with us,dance with us,rejoice with us,for the glory of creation,seagulls and seraphimangle worms and angel host,chrysanthemum and cherubim.(O cherubim.)Be!Sing for the gloryof the living and the lovingthe flaming of creationsing with usdance with usbe with us.Be!- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

~ Madeleine L'engle

To create something does not mean to see through to its depths; we do not drain our children to the dregs by begetting them, but set them loose in the world like wild dogs, beyond our control and often beyond our knowledge.

~ Graham Harman

Má leaves me but I'm not alone, and a terrifying thought creeps into my head. Family is now something I have created and not just something I was born into.

~ Thi Bui

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

~ James Carswell

Musical comedies aren't written they are re-written.

~ Stephen Sondheim

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

~ August Strindberg

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

~ Andrei Voznesensky

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

~ Martin Luther King

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

~ E. M. Forster

I do not seek. I find.

~ Pablo Picasso

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

~ Saul Steinberg

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

~ William Faulkner

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

~ Martha Graham

Doodling is the brooding of the hand.

~ Saul Steinberg

I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble and I will steal from everywhere to do it.

~ George Balanchine

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

~ Marilyn Machlowitz

You lose it if you talk about it.

~ Ernest Hemingway

In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

~ James Russell Lowell

I can always be distracted by love but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

~ Gilda Radner

The End of every maker is himself.

~ St. Thomas Aquinas

Now I really make the little idea from clay and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it look at it from underneath see it from one view hold it against the sky imagine it any size I like and really be in control almost like God creating something.

~ Henry Moore

No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.

~ John Cassavetes

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

~ Dean William R. Inge

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

~ Voltaire

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

~ Frank Capra

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

~ Jean Cocteau

What another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as you do not say it. What another would have written as well do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

~ André Gide

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare My business is to create.

~ William Blake

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

~ Erich Fromm

As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.

~ Pete Hamill

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

~ River Phoenix

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

~ Earle Brown

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

~ Edmund Burke

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

~ Neil Young