Je crois que l'automobile est aujourd'hui l'e¤  quivalent assez exact des grandes cathe¤  drales gothiques: je veux dire une grande cre¤  ation d'e¤  poque, con c° ue passionne¤  ment par des artistes inconnus, consomme¤  e dans son image, sinon dans son usage, par un peuple entier qui s'approprie en elle un objet parfaitement magique. Cars todayare almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals†the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consummated in image if not in usage bya whole populationwhich appropriates themas a purely magical object.

-Barthes, Roland
  Mythologies,'La nouvelle Citroe«  n'.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 8:22.

We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

-Book of Common Prayer
General Thanksgiving.

I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:öHunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Jane Eyre ch.17.

The world was beforethecreationand at anend beforeit had a beginning; and thus was I dead before I was alive. Though my grave be England, my dying place was Paradise, and Eve miscarried of me before she conceived of Cain.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 59.

God wasgood onthephysical and emotional sides and a great one for hate. He generously spilled his own hate into his dearest creation.

-Wilson
  Enderby's Dark Lady.

  Love all God's creation, thewhole of it and every grainof sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's lights. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.

-Doolittle,James Harold
^80  The Brothers Karamazov, bk.6, ch.3.

It wassaid of Metternichthat hewasso conservativethat had he been present at the Creation, he would have begged God to have retained Chaos.

-Evans, Bergen
  Note in his Dictionary of Quotations.

Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

-Feininger, Lyonel
  Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

Kangaroo, Kangaroo! Thou Spirit of Australia, That redeems from utter failure, From perfect desolation, And warrants the creation Of this fifth part of the Earth.

-Field, Barron
  First Fruits of  Australian Poetry,'The Kangaroo'.

The element of chance†is expelled. Nobody would now waste his time in theorizing about a fortuitous concourse of atoms.We have so far spelled out the history of creation as to see that all has been done in strict accordance with law. The method has been the method of evolution, and the more we study it the more do we discern in it intelligible coherence.

-Fiske,John
  Through Nature to God.

Think beforeyouspeak iscriticism'smotto; speak before you thinkcreation's.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
Two Cheers for Democracy,'Raison d'e"  tre of Criticism'.

Some advice: do not paint too much after nature. Art is an abstraction; derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more ofthe creationwhich will result than of nature.

-Gauguin, Paul
  Letter to Emile Schuffenecker.

Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measureinthemake ofall things, themost likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts ofthe Creationwhich come withinourobservation must

-Hales, Stephen
Canadian lawyer and satirist. In1835 he began a series of satiric sketches  later  enlarged  as The Clockmaker;  or The Sayings  and Doings of Samuel Slick (1836). The OldJudge;  or Life in a Colony (1849) combines social history and satire.

Dress is a form of visual art, a creation of images with the visible self as its medium.

-Hollander, Anne
  Seeing Through Clothes, ch.5.

Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system.You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

-Hughes,Ted (Edward James)
  'Hawk Roosting'.

And he shivered with the horror of Creation.

-Hughes,Ted (Edward James)
  'Crow Alights'.

Me"  lez toute votre a"  me a'   la cre¤  ation! Involve all of your soul in creation!

-Hugo,Victor Marie
Les Feuilles d'automne, no.38,'Pan'.

   Thegreat and solemnspiritthat pervadestheintellectual

-Hume, David
Scottish  philosopher  and  historian.  His  most  important  work, the   empiricist   A  Treatise   of   Human   Nature,   was   published anonymously (1739^40). He published a five-volume History  of England (1754^62) andwas secretary to theBritish Ambassador in Paris (1763^5).