Quotes About Existence

Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

To work is to live without dying.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

There must be a God, because I don't know how things work.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

Time is the source of all things

Life is the subtotal of time

Life is a totality of time

Everything is derived from time

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!

Having a job does not mean living

You can only reach God through His creation