Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

She wants her cup of stars.

All human joys are swift of wing For heaven doth so allot it That when you get an easy thing You find you haven't got it.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.

The reason that so many of us cannot save money is because of our friends. They're always buying something we can't afford.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.