Austin Osman Spare Quotes

#1. The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

Austin Osman Spare

#2. For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex - asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

Austin Osman Spare

#3. Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.

Austin Osman Spare

#4. The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am.

Austin Osman Spare

#5. And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

Austin Osman Spare

#6. It was the straying that found the path direct.

Austin Osman Spare

#7. Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

Austin Osman Spare

#8. My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness

Austin Osman Spare

#9. Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. 'Learning' will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

Austin Osman Spare

#10. Embrace reality by imagination.

Austin Osman Spare

#11. I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

Austin Osman Spare

#12. Art can contradict Science.

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#13. Other than damnation I know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value.

Austin Osman Spare

#14. Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.

Austin Osman Spare

#15. Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Austin Osman Spare

#16. In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

Austin Osman Spare

#17. The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.

Austin Osman Spare

#18. In our solitariness ... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

Austin Osman Spare