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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored....”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual artist notices the relationship of the line to the picture’s edge. Before that moment the relationship does not exist; afterwards it’s impossible to imagine it not existing. And from that moment on every new line talks back and forth with the picture’s edge. People who have not yet made this small leap do not see the same picture as those who have — in fact, conceptually speaking, they do not even live in the same world.”
― David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“What is youth? A dream. What is love? The dream's content.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.”
― David Bayles, Art and Fear

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
― Carl Jung

“Our suffering comes from our unlived life--the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.”
― C.G. Jung

“If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences—and infer the motivation.”
― Carl Jung

“The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual”
― C.G. Jung, Essays on Contemporary Events, 1936-46

“Carl Jung never said: “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
What Dr. Jung said in two separate and unrelated statements was:
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain. ~Carl Jung, Contributions to Analytical Psychology, P. 193
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 99.”
― C.G. Jung

“The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him; on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life and on the other, a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire... there are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.”
― Carl Jung THE SPIRIT OF MAN IN ART AND LITERATURE Psychology section third shelf on the right in the

“Image is psyche.”
― C.G. Jung

“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing in the Tower that has not grown into its own form over the decades, nothing with which I am not linked. Here everything has its history, and mine; here is space for the spaceless kingdom of the world's and the psyche's hinterland.”
― Carl G. Jung

“Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; he enthrals and overpowers...he transmutes our personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, and evokes in us all those beneficent forces that ever and anon have enabled humanity to find refuge from every peril and to outlive the longest night.”
― C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

“There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance. This also happens to animals; for example, a sexually excited stag will completely forget hunger and security. This one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it, "loss of soul." Another threat to the inner balance comes from excessive daydreaming, which in a secret way usually circles around particular complexes. In fact, daydreams arise just because they connect a man with his complexes; at the same time they threaten the concentration and continuity of his consciousness.

The second obstacle is exactly the opposite, and is due to an over-consolidation of ego-consciousness. Although a disciplined consciousness is necessary for the performance of civilized activities (we know what happens if a railway signalman lapses into daydreaming), it has the serious disadvantage that it is apt to block the reception of impulses and messages coming from the center. This is why so many dreams of civilized people are concerned with restoring this receptivity by attempting to correct the attitude of consciousness toward the unconscious center of Self.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Dare to think!”
― Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?

“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
― Immanuel Kant

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
― Immanuel Kant

“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)”
― Immanuel Kant

“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”
― Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

“Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren’t allowed to understand anything about it.”
― Robert Walser, The Walk and Other Stories

“Everything that’s forbidden lives a hundred times over; thus, if something is supposed to be dead, its life is all the livelier.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
― Georgia O'Keefe

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”
― Georgia O'Keefe