Quotes about Creation

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for thou out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, for dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.

No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities... Each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.

God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists.

Be, beget, begone.

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

The conclusion, therefore, is that of Augustine, who said that the heart of man was created for God and that it cannot find rest until it rests in his Father's heart. Hence all men are really seeking after God, as Augustine also declared, but they do not all seek Him in the right way, nor at the right place.