The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.
You are a guest of nature - behave.
If one person dreams alone. . . It is only a dream. When many people dream together. . . It is the beginning of a new reality.
If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.
A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.
If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.
As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences.
When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.