“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”
Source: I, Lucifer
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Glen Duncan 20
British writer 1965Related quotes
“Destruction always comes before creation”
War is Not the End of the World, 1972
“The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.”
Variant: The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”
"The Raison d'Etre of Criticism in the Arts"
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 26
“God is a flowing well which constantly may pour
Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
Attributed to Rodin in: Southwestern Art Vol. 6 (1977). p. 20; Partly cited in: A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson, p. 7
1950s-1990s
Context: The artist must learn the difference between the appearance of an object and the interpretation of this object through his medium. The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
The Psychoanalysis of Fire, ch. 2, "Fire and Reverie" (1938)
Prologue p. 10
The Sabbath (1951)