504 shaares
"Art is not an attempt to escape reality but the opposite, an attempt to animate it. It is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words."
"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them, and exceeding limits requires effort."
"I am beginning to now see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but, instead, as the One who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding."
"I think the greatest thing about things is they remind you of people."
"Everything has being through the love of God."
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress."
"For man, by the fall, fell at the same time from his state of innocence and from his dominion over creation. Both of these losses however can even in this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by arts and sciences."
"You don’t have to live in public on the internet if you don’t want to. Even if you’re a public figure, or micro-famous like me. I don’t follow anyone on my public Instagram account. No shade on those who follow me there, I’m glad you give me your time – but I need to be in my own space to get my shit done. You want a “hack” for handling the internet? Create private social media accounts, follow who you want and sit back and let your bespoke media channels flow to you. These are tools, not requirements. Don’t let them make you miserable. Tune them until they bring you pleasure."
"Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return."
"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist."
"Our media is largely sponsored by dictators or dictated by sponsors."
"The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature."
"The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor... Jesus never commanded me to love my religion."
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man."
"I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery, but in the sense of aesthetic craftsmanship; otherwise I will feel my loneliness continually--like this today. The word craftsmanship takes care of the work angle & the word aesthetic the truth angle. Angle. It will be a life struggle with no consummation. When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle. All our lives are consumed in possessing the struggle but only when the struggle is cherished & directed to a final consummation outside this life is it of any value. I want to be the best artist it is possible for me to be, under God."
"God cannot be known; God can only be loved. And that loving becomes its own way of knowing."