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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, fo...more

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Human history is a Gaian dream.

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I guess I should say a little bit about my method - I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science and am always keen to attack it in most situations,...more

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The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of ...more

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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

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We live in condensations of our imagination

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The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

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A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no g...more

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A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

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From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen as a peculiarly perverse example of Calvinist domin...more