Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.
Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.
Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own.
I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
My wish list is pretty short. I wish that we had empathy. As a society, we are so wrapped up in our own artificial creations that we have become disconnected from one another and the wonder of our natural world. I truly believe that empathy is the key to solving the majority of our environmental and social problems.
Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it is a set of discrete creations, it is not like that. But nevertheless, this spontaneity is constantly arising. And it is within this that is our freedom.
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is. . . and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
It's in the silence that I'm most able to hear the tiny voices that tell me I'm not good enough, smart enough, or cool enough. I try to hear them for what they are: my own creations. Sitting with them, letting them speak, hearing them out, and giving them back the silence that I'm now sitting in has shown me that, quite often, they shut up.
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
Angels are innumerable heavenly beings - immortal and invincible creations of God. He is the Lord of the hosts of heaven.
