The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it, just pictures.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

There is a difference between ‘off-limits’ and those places you can visit without getting caught.

You’re cute when you're mad." He caressed my bottom lip with the pad of his thumb. I huffed in exasperation. "Is that why you make me mad all the time?

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.