In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.
Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.
I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.
Astrology reveals the will of the gods.
Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.
A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.
A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.
fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.
Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.
Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.
Understanding God's great love for undeserving people such as us, gives us insight into His great majesty. As beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so great love reveals the nature of the One who loves deeply.
Fear reveals baseborn souls!
Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.
When we boldly seek love, love reveals itself to us, and we end up attracting more love. If one person loves us, everybody loves us.
This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.