Quotes About Transcendence

Si lo que tú has encontrado está formado por materia pura, jamás se pudrirá. Y tú podrás volver un día. Si fue sólo un momento de luz, como la explosión de una estrella, entonces no encontrarás nada cuando regreses. Pero habrás visto una explosión de luz. Y esto solo ya habrá valido la pena.

Se o que encontraste é feito de matéria pura, jamais apodrecerá. E poderás voltar um dia. Se foi apenas um momento de luz, como a explosão de uma estrela, então não vais encontrar nada quando voltares. Mas terás visto uma explosão de luz. E só isso já terá valido a pena.

Existe un lenguaje que va más allá de las palabras

People live to save themselves. You will understand that at the moment of your own death.

I will talk about my dances...when I was onstage I simply forgot about the woman I was and offered everything to God. That is why I was able to undress so easily. At that moment, I was nothing, not even my body. I was just movements communing with the universe.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike.

But as we let go of our repetitive stories and fixed ideas about ourselves--particularly deep-seated feelings of I'm not okay--the armor starts to fall apart, and we open into the spaciousness of our true nature, into who we really are beyond the transitory thoughts and emotions. We see that our armor is made up of nothing more than habits and fears, and we begin to feel that we can let those go.

Good or bad, happy or sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

Where the material ends, art begins.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

I am the soul in limbo.

Art is the escape from personality.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.