Best 1551 quotes in «creation quotes» category

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

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole 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 essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

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

Art is both creation and recreation.

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.]

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

As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.

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

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

As Muslims the way we show respect to the creator is by respecting creation and this is why we have to reconcile ourselves with the objectives of the Revelation and the objective is really to honor nature as part of Creation.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.

Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses.

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.

Black does not signify the darkness related to death or nothingness, but a darkness that combines everything and holds the possibility of creation, a temporary death that embraces rebirth.

Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.