(852 quotes found)
“The desire for the creation to exist - not for a return on investment, not for what it may say about you, but for the love of the thing, the creation, itself. One creates music because we love it enough to make it happen. The reason you would create anything is because you love it enough to see it exist.”
James Rouse
“Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.”
Henry Miller
“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
Albert Einstein
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty”
Edgar Allan Poe
“To destroy is always the first step in any creation.”
E. E. Cummings
“Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”
Giuseppe Mazzini
“Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, / And fevers into false creation.”
Lord Byron
“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.”
Judith Hayes