Best 1551 quotes in «creation quotes» category

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation and then the consideration of what has been created.

All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.

An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that ‘begging bowl’ to which the gift is drawn.

An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me forth a "new creation." He terminated my old life when there upon the Cross as Representative He died; and He imparted to me a new life when He arose from the grave.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

Art is both creation and recreation.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. [Ger., Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.]

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.