She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself.
Anais Nin Quotes
The physical is a symbol of the spiritual world. The people who keep old rags, old useless objects, who hoard, accumulate; are they the hoarders and keepers of the old ideas, useless information, lovers of the past only, even if its a form of detritus? I have the opposite obsession. In order to change skins, […]
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
The dream was always running ahead of one. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.