‘Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.’
- Barry Long
‘To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.’
- Auguste Rodin
‘At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.’
- Orson Welles
‘In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.’
- Oscar Wilde
‘To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence’
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
‘Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.’
- Franz Kafka
‘And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.’
- Christina G. Rossetti
‘Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason’
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.’
- Otomo No Yakamochi
‘Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.’
- Christina G. Rossetti
