Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
Hakim BeyIn short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.
Hakim BeyThe media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.
Hakim BeyThe dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
Hakim Bey