Introduction:
Welcome to a collection of thought-provoking quotes on creation, a topic that has sparked inspiration, contemplation, and debate throughout the ages. From the depths of artistic endeavors to the realms of scientific inquiry, humanity has always been fascinated by the act of creation. Whether it’s the birth of a new idea, the crafting of a masterpiece, or the genesis of life itself, the process of creation holds a profound significance in our lives and in the world around us.
These quotes offer insights into the various facets of creation, shedding light on its power, its mysteries, and its complexities. From the musings of philosophers and scientists to the reflections of artists and visionaries, these words capture the essence of what it means to create and to be creators ourselves. Whether you seek inspiration for your own creative endeavors or simply wish to ponder the nature of creation, you’ll find a wealth of wisdom and perspective within these quotes. So, dive in and explore the profound depths of creation as illuminated by the minds of thinkers and creators throughout history.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation… as music. Roy H. Williams
You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth. Wayne Dyer
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Thomas Carlyle
Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s. E. M. Forster
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united. Henri Nouwen
The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art. Antony Gormley
The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. Don Miguel Ruiz
In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs. Bernie Sanders
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Inge
New York is the place that made my and other artists’ dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation. Yayoi Kusama
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. Stefan Banach
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‘convulsions of nature,’ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love. John Muir
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. Leo Burnett
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. Richard Holloway
Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. Giorgio Vasari
Sustainable production and consumption matter immensely to the people I meet every day as head of the International Trade Centre, which works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them boost growth and job creation by improving their competitiveness and connecting to international markets. Arancha Gonzalez
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. Ron Paul
With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath. Tara Brach
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. Emily Dickinson
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. James Joyce
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution. Jonathan Sacks
People should have values, so by extension, a company should. And one of the things you do is give back. So how do you give back? We give back through our work in the environment, in running the company on renewable energy. We give back in job creation. Tim Cook
To destroy is always the first step in any creation. e. e. cummings
We are a wealthy country. We also are the global engine of innovation in health care, whether it’s the pharmaceutical industry or the creation of medical devices. Ron Williams
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done. Leland Stanford
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember always that the composer’s pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. John Philip Sousa
Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation. Paramahansa Yogananda
I’ve heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there’s a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you’ve run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else’s behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation. Anne Lamott
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. Neale Donald Walsch
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Edmund Burke
Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal. Ramana Maharshi
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. Victor Hugo
Mankind’s role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things. Morihei Ueshiba
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation. Friedrich Nietzsche
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Ted Hughes
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. Henry Moore
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. James Baldwin
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. Julian Assange
A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity. Stephen Chow
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. Noam Chomsky
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. Willa Cather
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. Marguerite Duras
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! Luigi Pirandello
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. Claude M. Bristol
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe
Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational. Andris Nelsons
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. George Orwell
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other. John Constable
History has shown that a government’s redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector’s creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy. Victor Davis Hanson
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in ‘Tinker, Tailor,’ was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I’m such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days. John le Carre
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. Matthew Arnold
The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation’s 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn’t around. Nonetheless, the early universe still had the right stuff for life, and contained worlds that were just as suitable for spawning biology and intelligence as our own. Seth Shostak
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. John Ruskin
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. Albert Schweitzer
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. Ansel Adams
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. Elon Musk
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. Antoni Gaudi
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation. Larry Elder
And there begins a lang digression about the lords o’ the creation. Robert Burns
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. Albert Einstein
The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same. Yves Saint Laurent
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. H. P. Lovecraft
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. Albert Pike
It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again. Sonny Rollins
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust. Mahatma Gandhi
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. Abdus Salam
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore
Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation. Denzil Douglas
What was God doing before the divine creation? Stephen Hawking
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. Gustave Flaubert
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. Man Ray
I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I’m shooting, it’s even more – I don’t know if it has to do with stress or with creation. Emmanuel Lubezki
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. Madeleine L’Engle
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Patti Smith
Success is a completely abstract thing – it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success. Rachel Kushner
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. Auguste Rodin
The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid. Meir Kahane
To sit for one’s portrait is like being present at one’s own creation. Alexander Smith
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself. Meister Eckhart
Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The creation of God itself, I deduced, came from our primal fear. Kamal Haasan
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life. Eugene H. Peterson
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. Georg C. Lichtenberg
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation. Maya Angelou
We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative. Herb Kohl
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen. Jose Rizal
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. Sugata Mitra
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction – there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. Marco Tempest
I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God. Sai Baba
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson
The True Self is not our creation, but God’s. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence. Sue Monk Kidd
‘Economics for Everybody’ begins with understanding God’s principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards. R. C. Sproul
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. Brian May
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. John Maynard Keynes