Some of my favorite quotes
"If you look into the Dark, the paranoid theater of the Mind
will perform for you. But if you look into the Light, who knows
what wonders you may see..."
-Pops Teru, The Adventures of Ruby - Galactic Gumshoe
The purpose of Art is to lay bare the questions
that have been hidden by the answers.
-James Baldwin
Physics is a form of insight and as such it's a form of art.
-David Bohm
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is
not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
-Galileo
Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge
to all the generations of the world.
-Leonard da Vinci
Great Art can communicate before it is understood.
-T.S. Elliot
The Artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future
because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
-Wyndham Lewis
If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
-Heraclitus
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Einstein
I am the primitive of the way I have discovered.
-Cézanne
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the
Universe as it is grasped by the human mind,
by bringing a new form into it.
-Matisse
Color is energy made visible.
-John Russell
I paint things as I think of them, not as I see them.
-Picasso
Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.
-Magritte
The Artist is the antennae of the race.
-Ezra Pound
Humanity has just entered what is probably the greatest transformation
it has ever known. Something is happening in the structure
of human consciousness. It is another species of life
that is just the beginning.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Both science and Art form in the course of the centuries a human
language by which we can speak about the more remote parts
of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as
the different styles of Art are different words or groups
of words in this language.
-Werner Heisenberg
"After this, we will all have to live a little differently."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
upon seeing Constantin Brancusi's 1919 sculpture Bird in Space.
I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself.
The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.
-Rudy Rucker
Nothing that is vast enters into the life of mortals without a curse.
-Sophocles
The only valid thing in Art is the one thing that cannot be explained,
to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable
harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the
explanation or the definition for the image of the thing.
-Matisse
Time & Space are Real Beings, a Male & a Female.
Time is a Man, Space is a Woman.
-William Blake
Know Thyself-Nothing in Excess
-Oracle of Delphi
There's a lot of prophecy in these Dionysian doings and in their hysteria,
and when that god gets deep in a man's body,
why he can make you tell the future.
-Euripides
More primordial than any idea, Beauty will manifest as the
herald and generator of ideas.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Only that fine apparatus which is called "the soul of the Artist" can
understand and feel the reflection of the noumenon in the phenomenon.
In Art it is necessary to study "occultism" - the hidden side of life.
The Artist must be clairvoyant; he must see that which others do not see;
he must be a magician; must possess the power to make others see that which
they do not themselves see, but which he does see.
-P.D. Ouspensky
In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female; and in the man's brain,
the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the woman predominates
over the man.If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect;
and a woman must have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this
when he said that the great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place
that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties.
-Virginia Woolf
Why is it continually inferred that the age of the "pagan" religions, the time
of worship of female deities (if mentioned at all), was dark and chaotic, mysterious
and evil, without the light of order and reason that supposedly accompanied the later
male religions, when it has been archeologically confirmed that the earliest law,
government, medicine, agriculture, architecture, metallurgy, wheeled vehicles, ceramics,
textiles, and written language were initially developed in societies that worshipped the Goddess?
-Merlin Stone
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
-Einstein
I have been found guilty of the misdemeanor known as...
making light of Einstein.
-ee cummings
One image is worth a thousand words.
-Chinese Proverb
The Reformers banned the cult of the Virgin Mary and the saints,
and so took these images away. Christianity became more of a male
world than ever. Not only did it deprive the Christian imagination
of powerful images and myths and thus made it cerebral, emotionally
impoverished and narrowly masculine affair, on a more basic level the
only important people and "gods" now were all men.
-Karen Armstrong
Schizophrenia may be the necessary consequence of literacy.
-Marshall McLuhan
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything
gets distorted, language is just no damn good - I use it because I have to,
but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand each other.
-Marcel Duchamp
It is in vain that we say what we see; what we see never resides in what we say.
-Michel Foucault
We must once again accept and harmonize the perceptual biases of both
(the left and right brain) and understand that for thousands of years
the left hemisphere has suppressed the qualitative judgment of the right,
and the human personality has suffered for it.
-Bruce Powers
Beauty will save the world.
-Dostoevsky
Great Artists have no country.
-Alfred de Musset
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul,
and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
-Leo Tolstoy
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing
you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
-Samuel Johnson
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
-Matisse
All art worthy of the name is religious. Be it a creation of lines and
colors, if it is not religious, it does not exist. If it is not religious,
it is only a matter of documentary art, anecdotal art, which is no longer art.
-Matisse
My atheism . . . is true piety towards the Universe and denies
only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants
of their human interests.
-George Santayana
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-Jonathan Swift