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"The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually."
"That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation."
"Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation."
"The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism."
"There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him."
"Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself."
"The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me."
"One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself."
"You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation."
"You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life."
"We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created."
"Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast."
"The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming"
