When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.