“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés with the suffocating […]
Indeed, when human beings are transformed into commodities, what can their conversation be but trivial? Would commodities on the market, if they could speak, not […]
The “realists” believe, of those who strive for kindness, that these latter mean well but that they are ingenuous, full of illusions—briefly, fools. And they […]
A philosopher, which is what I am supposed to be, is a sort of intellectual yokel who gapes and stares at what sensible people take […]
I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one’s while to buy them. […]
“I have been photographing the United States trying by investigating photographically to learn who we are and how we feel, but seeing what we look […]
It is very important for the artist to gauge his position aright, to realize that he has a duty to his art and to himself, […]
“The neurotic fails through incessant vacillation. The artist succeeds in giving shape and form to the conflict and ejects truth and beauty.” – Otto Rank […]
Aesthetics is usually defined as “a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful and with judgments concerning beauty.” I recall the endurance […]
“One way of looking at human creativity is as a process of pulling balls out of a giant urn. The balls represent possible ideas, discoveries, […]
“In your case, mind and nature, consciousness and dream world lie very far apart. You’ve forgotten your childhood; it cries for you from the depths […]
“… it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. […] Today the individual has become […]
“I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibrium or, as it is […]
“You need not, and in fact cannot, teach an acorn to grow into an oak tree, but when given a chance, its intrinsic potentialities will […]
“One doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only […]
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