Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.