Salvador Dali quotes:
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”


“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”


“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”


“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”


“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?”




“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”



“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"
Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”



“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”


“The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.”


“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”


“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic”


“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”


“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”


“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”



“The difference between false memories and true ones is the
same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
most real, the most brilliant.”


“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”


“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”


“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”


“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”


“So little of what could happen does happen.”


“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”


“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”



“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”


“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”


“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”


“People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”


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Process painting-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuGsSnT3MN0



	First there's the leap. There's the willingness to pick up a brush, to put color on the brush, and to put color on the canvas, and not know what's hapenning, not have a goal in mind. This is a lot, this is pretty huge, because there's a lot of resistance that comes up to doing this. It's quite a challenge to do something for nothing. But once you take the leap, you enter a different sphere, a different environment psycically in yourself.

So one of the first things you recognize it that it's easy.

Sometimes people say it's "just". I was just being silly, or I was just being spontaneous, that we eppend the experience with the word just as though it's not really the real thing, it's not really important. And I think we equate difficulty with progress. That if we're not experiencing difficulty, that we have to suffer along the way, that the experience is of no value if we're not having to work at it.



 Following the energy

...It takes you away from yourself, and gives you this goal to achive, and therefore pulls you out of your own experience.

It's not about pleasing us, it's purpose is not about pleasing our aesthetic or pleasing our need for meaning or pleasing our need for recognition. It has none of that in mind.

The gesture feels right. Sometimes it's a gesture. Sometimes you can't get enough of a certain gesture, you do it over and over and over and it's feeling so good, and it doesn't mean anything necessarily, but it feels good. That's the way the energy manifests. And it's not unusual for the mind to step in and say, "Well enough of that gesture, I'm getting redundant, I must be stuck because all I can seem to do is the same gesture over and over again and, in fact, I've been doing it for the last five paintings, there's something wrong with me, there's something wrong with my process. Oh, I'm stuck".


	The energy is intelligent. The energy doesn't lie. If indeed, you were getting stuck, and in a pattern that was an escape or too safe because you didn't want to face another piece of paper, if that were the case there would be no energy. You'd get bored, you'd get tired, the brush would balk.

And we listen to these rather arbitrary statements the mind makes based upon more arbitrary statements and experiences. And it builts a scenario that we attempt to follow, and get lost when we get seperated from our true nature, we get in kind of a distorted place. And so the painting process is always pulling you back.


And you'll notice that time dissapears and conflict dissapears, you go into an altered state, you go into a rather deep state of being, non-thinking and being. And the thinking that does take place is often up there in the surface, like you're deep in this well, and there's this noise going on up there but it doesn't distract you, it doesn't pull you out. And this can continue on for a very long time, and then at a certain point one stream will come to an end and you have to back up, and this is often a moment of transition in which you can find another stream. But it's asking you to question, it's asking you, "Okay, that stream is finished, where now? What color is calling me now?".

What if you had permission to really use that big brush in a very bold way? That you could just do anything you wanted with it, you don't have to be careful, you don't have to make anything that looks good, you could just be really bold. And if that's where the energy wants to go, the person is going to recognize it at that moment.

We do have to make the intention of listening to the energy rather than the mind.
	But then when we find it it feels like something inherent, it feels instinctive, it feels like it belongs to us. In fact it's who we are, I would say, more than the definitions that the mind puts on us as who we are.

The self image that we carry around, which is so dependant upon what other people think of us and whether our art is good or whether it's this or that, or whether I like it or I don't like it, this totally mind stuff, it's sort of an image of ourselves that's built on very very shaky soil. When you touch the energy you feel "I don't need any of that, I don't care what other people think about it".


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"I thought of science class and the way deadly storms were born when cold and hot air combined and how that same principle was behind the range of emotions I was feeling."
-Vast Fields of Ordinary



"The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea."
-Aristotle and Dante Discover the secrets of the universe


"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
” Oscar Wilde


"There is Nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural."
-Kristen Cashore, Fire


“I'm supposed to be guilty of all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, but when you get right down to it, I'm really only guilty of one: wondering. The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions. You want to know. Man do you want to know.”

Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer


I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road


We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
"
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind



Only that is spiritual which makes its own form. If I may not find its secret within myself, I shall never find it: if I have not got it already, it will never come to me.


It has come to me right out of myself, so I know that it has come at the proper time. It could not have come before, nor later. Had any one told me of it, I would have rejected it. Had it been brought to me, I would have refused it. As I found it, I want to keep it. I must do so. It is the one thing that has in it the elements of life, of a new life, Vita Nuova for me. Of all things it is the strangest. One cannot acquire it, except by surrendering everything that one has. It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it.
Oscar Wilde- De Profundis



What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.
Oscar Wilde- De Profundis



If you say, as more orthodox theologians do, that in all the laws which God issues he had a reason for giving those laws rather than others,the reason, of course, being to create the best universe, although you would never think it to look at it -if there were a reason for the laws which God gave, then God himself was subject to law, and therefore you do not get any advantage by introducing God as an intermediary.


if you are quite sure there is a difference between right and wrong, then you are in this situation: is that difference due to God's fiat or is it not? If it is due to God's fiat, then for God himself there is no difference between right and wrong, and it is no longer a significant statement to say that God is good. If you are going to say, as theologians do, that God is good, you must then say that right and wrong have some meaning which is independent of God's fiat, because God's fiats are good and not bad independently of the fact that he made them.



"All information will come in by super-
realistic television and other electronic devices as yet in the planning
stage or barely imagined. In one way this will enable the individual to
extend himself anywhere without moving his body—even to distant
regions of space. But this will be a new kind of individual—an
individual with a colossal external nervous system reaching out and out
into infinity. And this electronic nervous system will be so
interconnected that all individuals plugged in will tend to share the same
thoughts, the same feelings, and the same experiences. There may be
specialized types, just as there are specialized cells and organs in our
bodies. For the tendency will be for all individuals to coalesce into a
single bioelectronic body.


If the human race
develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual
people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost
precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose
our own bodies. We have already done it."
Alan Watts- On the Taboo against knowing who you are


The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
Terence McKenna


“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy