The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of ex­perience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" crea­tivity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.