To find the idea for which I can live and die
“To be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain understanding […]
“To be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain understanding […]
“Appreciation of life is not easy. One says he must earn a living — but why? Why live? It seems as though a great many […]
“The man who believes that money is the thing is cheating himself. The artist teaches that the object of a man’s life should be to […]
“The sketch hunter has delightful days of drifting about among people, in and out of the city, going anywhere, everywhere, stopping as long as he […]
“I believe I am a stranger to humanity. I did not want just to paint people with their grimaces and gestures. What I really wanted […]
“But perhaps you have hit upon the ideal of being a poet because you see a poet as an original, a perceptive and a pious […]
From Wikipedia, John B. Calhoun, “an American ethologist and behavioral researcher noted for his studies of population density and its effects on behavior”. Mouse experiments […]
A few quotes from an article I came across on Medium (https://medium.com/@dmoore629/climbing-the-ladder-of-selves-86ddaacf72bd) “The philosopher Colin Wilson, in his book New Pathways of Psychology (1972), used […]
“The Outsider is someone who sees “too deep and too much” and that most of what he sees is “chaos.” He or she lives in […]
Proto Abstraction What I call ‘proto abstraction’ can, as the name implies, be considered a way-stage on the road to abstraction proper. It typically depicts […]
The art historian, Wilhelm Worringer, wrote a dissertation in 1906, which became his famous Abstraction and Empathy. […] Worringer stated that modern aesthetics was based […]
“The individual … no longer resists the annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for […]
“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information […]
“Freud was right in linking play and phantasy, but he was surely wrong in believing that play and phantasy should be abandoned in favour of […]
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