Quotes About Existence

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?... Where am I going to...?

For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.

Art is man's nature nature is God's art.

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces.

While it is the most common element, hydrogen does not naturally exist by itself, except in rare instances. It is derived by breaking up molecules. Today most hydrogen is produced from natural gas and coal.

Hypothesis: To burn and not consume. Hypothesis: To consume and not extinguish.

Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.

I imagine a belief in God must come with a dazzling sense of purpose.

Daniel Ziskind had once learned that time is created through deeds of true kindness. Days and hours and years are not time, but merely vessels for it, and too often they are empty. The world stands still, timeless and empty, until an act of generosity changes it in an instant and sends it soaring through arcs of rich seasons, moment after spinning moment of racing beauty. And then, with a single unkind deed, a single withheld hand, time ceases to exist.

What is life when living without the Lifemaker?

I think the themes of The Fountain, about this endless cycle of energy and matter, tracing back to the Big Bang... The Big Bang happened, and all this star matter turned into stars, and stars turned into planets, and planets turned into life. We're all just borrowing this matter and energy for a little bit, while we're here, until it goes back into everything else, and that connects us all.

Alive is better than dead. Always.

Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.

He who believes in the struggle for existence and in the principle of natural selection, will acknowledge that every organic being is constantly endeavouring to increase in numbers; and thus if any one being vary ever so little, either in habits or structure, and thus gain an advantage over some other inhabitant of the country, it will seize on the place of that inhabitant, however different it may be from its own place.

What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

I realize that some of you may be skeptical about the idea of reincarnation, but there's a lot of evidence that it's real. Exhibit A is Vice President Al Gore, who obviously, at some point in his previous existence, was a slab of Formica.

You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that won't exist or be remembered in a week. You're leaving no evidence you lived. There's no proof.