Sadayatana

The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

- Alan Moore, De Abaitua interview (1998)

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

- Jorge Luis Borges

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

- C. W. Leadbeater, The Chakras (1927)

The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

- Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (1987)

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

- Hermann Hesse, Demian (1919)

Everything is dead while it lives.

- Egon Schiele (1890 -- 1918)

The beauty of dreams and sleeping is that it shows us when we dream that we are building worlds. And we build them freshly every night and we build them freshly every day, when we are awake and when we are asleep. It's a constant process of creation, and the altered states that we experience when we sleep happen to everybody every night.

- Robert Rich

I started coming to the studio with less worked-out pieces, and eventually with nothing at all. I would just start working with that thing, “the studio,” as the instrument.

There is nothing outside of this process. This process called recording is the creative process. We don’t have the canvas standing in front of any landscape, you are going to make the landscape here and now.

- Brian Eno

Here on the quiet page I'm master, just as I'm master in the darkroom, stirring my prints in the magic developing bath. I shuffle like cards the lives I deal with. Their faces stare out at me. People who will become other people. People who will become old, betray their dreams, become ghosts.

- C.J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously (1978)