Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.