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Creation Quotes


"Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin."


"There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C."


"Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are."


"Everything you wish to "create" is already there, waiting for you."



"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent."


"Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy."


"When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation."


"I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it."


"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."



"To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want."


"Sanity is madness put to good use."


"It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art. Everything is transformed by his power into material and by writing it he can overcome it. Everything is grist to his mill. ... The artist is the only free man."


"In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction."


"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."


"Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states."


"Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!"


"To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether."


"Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back."


"You are the creation of your own consciousness."


"A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."


"If men would understand and appreciate the good efforts that went into creation and how beautiful, good and awesome the creations were at the beginning, they would never think of undermining the Creators effort and integrity by destroying the beauty of nature! God is watching us!"


"God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God."


"It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist."


"A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity."


"I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be."


"The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul living in joy and peace."


"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-flesh and bone-only to be spewed out again in our own works."


"You can create any product from time."


"That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying."


"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."
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