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Here are quotes by artists and others that are post personal in nature. Below them are a few of Patrick Howe's thoughts on the topic condensed into adages.
"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self." —Albert Einstein
“I don’t express myself in my painting. I express my not-self”.”
—Mark Rothko
"My first interest is in Being, along the way I am an artist."
—Morris Graves
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself"
Carl Sagan
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
—Thomas Merton
"When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about. "
—Keith Haring
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
—Joseph Campbell
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."
—T.S. Eliot
"True creativity arises from the vastness beyond the person you think you are."
—Eckhart Tolle
"All significant personal and social change starts within".
—David Lynch
"I didn't compose the Rite of Spring, I transcribed it"
—Egor Stavinsky
"No self, no problem."
—A Buddhist monk's reply when reporters ask him to explain Buddhism.
“Isn’t the ultimate desire of human beings to perceive an order that surpasses us yet is within us, to participate in that order?”
—Paul Klee
“The artist does nothing other than gather and pass on what comes to him from his depths. He neither serves nor rules—he transmits.”
—Paul Klee
“Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never
deciphers life.”
—Constantin Brancusi
“There is a purpose in all things. To reach it, one must be detached from oneself.’
—Constantin Brancusi
“The journey is really within oneself.”
—Constantin Brancusi
“The inner command is to allow oneself to fall into one’s own essence.”
—Julius Bissier
"The landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its consciousness."
—Cezanne
Here are quotes by artists and others that are post personal in nature. Below them are a few of Patrick Howe's thoughts on the topic condensed into adages.
"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self." —Albert Einstein
“I don’t express myself in my painting. I express my not-self”.”
—Mark Rothko
"My first interest is in Being, along the way I am an artist."
—Morris Graves
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself"
Carl Sagan
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
—Thomas Merton
"When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about. "
—Keith Haring
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
—Joseph Campbell
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."
—T.S. Eliot
"True creativity arises from the vastness beyond the person you think you are."
—Eckhart Tolle
"All significant personal and social change starts within".
—David Lynch
"I didn't compose the Rite of Spring, I transcribed it"
—Egor Stavinsky
"No self, no problem."
—A Buddhist monk's reply when reporters ask him to explain Buddhism.
“Isn’t the ultimate desire of human beings to perceive an order that surpasses us yet is within us, to participate in that order?”
—Paul Klee
“The artist does nothing other than gather and pass on what comes to him from his depths. He neither serves nor rules—he transmits.”
—Paul Klee
“Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never
deciphers life.”
—Constantin Brancusi
“There is a purpose in all things. To reach it, one must be detached from oneself.’
—Constantin Brancusi
“The journey is really within oneself.”
—Constantin Brancusi
“The inner command is to allow oneself to fall into one’s own essence.”
—Julius Bissier
"The landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its consciousness."
—Cezanne
The following are contemplations about Post Personalism by Patrick Howe that have been condensed into adages:
"Believing you are either great or inadequate is for amateurs. Let the light in your heart burn through your life and into the world. The rest will take care of itself."
""Originality is what happens when the artist becomes nothing."
Most art is about the human being experience. Post Personalism is about Being experiencing the human."
"Post Personalism is thinking outside the self."
"The artist is an empty space through which consciousness shines."
"Finally, the artist no longer has to take personal credit for making something that the universe has worked on for that past 13.8 billion years?”
"If you cannot detach from your identity as an artist you will never know what it means to be a true artist."
"Can Post Personalism art be disturbing? Yes, to anyone who finds the dissolution of the self disturbing.
"If you want to make art from scratch, start by making a universe."
(Inspired by a similar statement made by Carl Sagan)
"From a universal perspective, the human is a creative instrument but the universe is the artist. Becoming conscious of that is to begin sharing in the creative intelligence of the universe."
"To say there is the universe and then there is a me, is a contradiction."
"The source of human creativity is the same source of creativity that has made everything else."
Here are quotes that are not directly related to Post Personalism but nevertheless convey its broader meaning.
"Art is a wound that turns into light."
—George Braque
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
—Pascal
"I have learned that art and nature are mind's environment within which we can detect the essence of humanity's being and purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness."
—Morris Graves
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
—Robert Henri
"You have to have the guts to engage with your own spiritual journey, which is what life is for. It can be reflected in art, but art won’t take you there on its own. You actually have to use your inquiring mind and question yourself and the bullshit of things. You have to avoid getting tied up in intellectual and ironic gameplay, which will not give you liberation. You’re going to get it through authentic engagement."
—Billy Chyldish, British artists (born 1959)
"True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless."
—Tao Te Ching, Chap: 45
"The greatest art seems unsophisticated,
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish."
—Tao Te Ching, Chap: 41
"Art is a wound that turns into light."
—George Braque
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
—Pascal
"I have learned that art and nature are mind's environment within which we can detect the essence of humanity's being and purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness."
—Morris Graves
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
—Robert Henri
"You have to have the guts to engage with your own spiritual journey, which is what life is for. It can be reflected in art, but art won’t take you there on its own. You actually have to use your inquiring mind and question yourself and the bullshit of things. You have to avoid getting tied up in intellectual and ironic gameplay, which will not give you liberation. You’re going to get it through authentic engagement."
—Billy Chyldish, British artists (born 1959)
"True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless."
—Tao Te Ching, Chap: 45
"The greatest art seems unsophisticated,
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish."
—Tao Te Ching, Chap: 41
