Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.