"The highest purpose in this universe is the creation of an effect."
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"I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor."
"Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say 'no'"
"God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth."
"The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism."
"And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation."
"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."
"God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind."
"Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation."
"If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation."
"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions."
"The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it."
"Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life."
"Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector."
"It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war."
"Games are nature's most beautiful creation"
"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator."
"There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain."
"Creation and creativity are inextricably linked."
"The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality."