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"The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God."
"There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation."
"Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot."
"There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political."
"I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far."
"We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation."
"Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation."
"I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth."
"Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?"
"Reality is a creation of our excesses."
"You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are."
"The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]"
"Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future."
"I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life."
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
"I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state."
"To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation."
"Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science."
"Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness."
"The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image."
