EVERYTHING has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
RAOUL VANELGEM
DEEP SEXUAL ORGASM gives the body at-homeness. a very, very deep heat that happens in the body because the body feels whole. OHSO
I THINK WOMEN ARE FOOLISH to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. Whatever you give a woman, she will make it greater, If you give herr sperm, she’ll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she’ll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she’ll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she’ll give you her heart. She multiplies & enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!
WILLIAM GOLDING
IN THE VERY END, CIVILIZATIONS PERISH BECAUSE THEY LISTEN TO THEIR POLITICIANS AND NOT THEIR POETS. JONAS MEKAS
THE ART OF BEING HAPPY LIES IN THE POWER OF EXTRACTING HAPPINESS FROM COMMON THINGS. HENRY WARD BEECHER
WHEN YOU FORGIVE, YOU DON’T CHANGE THE PAST . . .YOU CHANGE THE FUTURE!
WE’VE BEEN INFECTED WITH THE IDEA that love is an emotion only felt between two people. But love is universal, an energy, a contagious force, a gift. to off money to a homeless man is to love. To save a worm from the sun is love. To smile at a stranger is love. To be grateful, to be hopeful, is to be brave, to be forgiving, to be proud is to love. A.R.Lucus
AGNES MARTIN 1912-2004 “Her Life & Art”. “Painting”
ART IS THE CONCRETE REPRESENTATION OF OUR MOST SUBLE FEELINGS.
ONE THING I LIKE ABOUT ZEN. IT DOESN’T BELIEVE IN ACHIEVEMENT.
PEOPLE who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn’t it?
THE MAIN THING in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.
HAPPINESS IS BEING ON THE BEAM WITH LIFE — TO FEEL THE PULL OF LIFE.
MY PAINTINGS are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
I’M VERY CAREFUL NOT TO HAVE IDEAS BECAUSE THEY’RE INACCURATE.
THE VALUE OF ART IS IN THE OBSERVER.
ARTWORK IS A REPRESENTATION OF OUR DEVOTION TO LIFE.
THE WORST THING you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
ERICH FROMM 1900-1980. “Escape From Freedom””The Sane Society”.
MAN ALWAYS DIES BEFORE HE IS FULLY BORN.
MAN’S MAIN TASK in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
LOVE IS THE ONLY SANE & SATISFACTORY ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.
THE LUST FOR POWER IS NOT ROOTED IN STRENGTH BUT IN WEAKNESS.
GREED is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
THE TASK we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
LOVE ISN’T SOMETHING NATURAL. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith & the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.
AN ILLUSION SHARED BY EVERYBODY BECOMES A REALITY.
CREATIVITY REQUIRES THE COURAGE TO LET GO OF CERTAINTIES.
MANY psychiatrists & psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of ‘unadjusted’ individuals & not a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
PARADOXICALLY the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
THE REAL OPPOSITION is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having & the free man who has overcome his egocentricity.
HATE IS A PRODUCT OF THE UNFULFILLED LIFE.
THE PERSON who gives up his individual self & becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone & anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
ONLY THE PERSON WHO HAS FAITH IN HIMSELF IS ABLE TO BE FAITHFUL TO OTHERS.
WHEN PEOPLE CAN’T HANDLE GOD ANY MORE, THEY TURN TO RELIGION.
WE ARE NOT ON THE WAY TO GREATER INDIVIDUALISM BUT ARE BECOMING AN INCREASINGLY MANIPULATED MASS CIVILIZATION.
MODERN MAN is alienated from himself, from his fellow men & from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.