563 quotes found
“No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.”
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”
“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”
“What another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as you do not say it. What another would have written as well do not write it. Be faithful to that ...”
“It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.”
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare My business is to create.”
“In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters....”
“Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.”
“All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.”
“It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.”
“The world embarrasses me and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.”
“Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.”
“However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for him nothing is impossible, it's simply that he wouldn't know what face to wear...”
“I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see...”
“Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.”
“And of the sixth day yet remainedThere wanted yet the master work, the endOf all yet done: a creature who not prone And brute as other creatures but enduedWith sanctity of reason might erect His st...”
“Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.”
“Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mothe...”
