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That beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible
“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés with the suffocating […]
Absence is not Vacancy (black and white photograph)
Absence is not vacancy. Vacancy has no voice. Vacancy is empty and banal and atheistic. Absence, on the other hand, is a fertile ground where […]
The neurotic and the artist
“The neurotic fails through incessant vacillation. The artist succeeds in giving shape and form to the conflict and ejects truth and beauty.” – Otto Rank […]
You’ve forgotten your childhood; It will make you suffer until you heed it
“In your case, mind and nature, consciousness and dream world lie very far apart. You’ve forgotten your childhood; it cries for you from the depths […]
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship
“… it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. […] Today the individual has become […]
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines
You just have to do your creative work, whatever that is for you. Failure or success are matters to be assessed much, much later, once […]
