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“True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.”
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“Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.”
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“I think the world tries to put people in a box, like this is the only appropriate way to be beautiful.”
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“We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images , not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”
Source : Eidos: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture, and Design, No. 1, p. 31, 1950.
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“As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.”
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“Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus - your abdominal brain - and is brought into your world as a reality.”
Source : Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.80, Penguin
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“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
Source : Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen
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“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.”
