Is it official Christian knowledge that the evil cannot create anything new?

This quote is attributed to J.R.R. Tolkien: > Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made. and clarified here that it is only a paraphrase from Tolkien's work. While the statement above is beautiful, and by my personal judgment entirely true, I am interested to know of there is any official statement (preferably in the Holy Bible, or some other very "strong" source) which conceives the same information. Without a proper foundation, this quote has little to no value, except maybe artistic, sentimental, motivational...