Some idiotic things are well worth doing.
My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
Certain people always say we should go back to nature. I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling. . . feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can't, almost surely you are not going to.
[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we threaten the biosphere and jeopardize our own survival, for Homo sapiens is close to the head of the list of endangered species.