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  • Every act of creation is first an act of destruction -- Pablo Picasso
  • Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso
  • The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
  • Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso
  • Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation. -- Robert Jastrow
  • Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation. -- Peter McWilliams
  • Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation. -- Wayne Dyer
  • I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. -- George Steiner
  • The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. -- Anais Nin
  • Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. -- Harold Rosenberg
  • Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. -- Sophie Marceau
  • Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time. -- Alyson Noel
  • There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. -- Oliver Sacks
  • Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation. -- Sholem Asch
  • But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process. -- Walter Lang
  • In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities. -- Chris Campanioni
  • It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank. -- Arne Jacobsen
  • Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals. -- Dahlia Lithwick
  • I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me. -- Thom Mayne
  • The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger. -- George Steiner
  • I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to an Other and simultaneously being reborn as a child in the playground of creation. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
  • Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this? -- Frederick Lenz
  • One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. -- Victor Hugo
  • Smiling can be a deliberate, intentioned act. When it is that, it becomes an act of creation, and a powerful tool. Be quick to smile, and quick to share your smile with others. You will light up your heart and light up the room. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. -- Stephen King
  • I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation! -- Sam Taylor-Wood
  • The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. -- Hans Hofmann
  • A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. -- Augustine Birrell
  • Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. -- Charles de Secondat
  • Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting bird chicks. Far more significant, however, is the creation of the field in the first place: an act that replaces entire ecosystems, along with all their animal inhabitants. -- Tristram Stuart
  • How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself. -- Sam Abell
  • A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive? -- Itay Talgam
  • Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual. -- Simone Weil
  • The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force. -- Bryant McGill
  • The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life. -- George Sand
  • In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. -- Albert Camus
  • Your part in the co-creation process to attract more money in your life is to act on the ideas that are coming to you. -- Joe Vitale
  • Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation? -- Josh Charles
  • The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.' -- Gore Vidal
  • Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act. -- Carl Jung
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