Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.