The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
The real function of art is to change mental patterns. . . making new thought possible.
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach. . Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.
Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.
We are totally dysfunctional. ” “I prefer ‘selectively deviant’. But we’ll keep that to ourselves.