I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -Aristotle
The unexamined life is not worth living.- Socrates
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, each prayer accepted and each wish resigned. -ESoTSM
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
-William Shakespeare
Numbing the pain for a while will make it so much worse when you finally feel it. -Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison
Oh and hey, when the World comes after you in enigmatic, esoteric robes you have to return the favor or face the consequences…and in the mirror of it all you get a chance to laugh at your own reflections as well.