“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”

“At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants...”

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”

“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”

“Poznanie, ktoré sme raz dosiahli, má zvláštnu vlastnosť... akosi ho už nemožno vziať naspäť, nemožno ho vymazať z dejín ľudstva, možno ho len prekonávať poznaním ďalším, hlbším.”

“No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.”

“...I see the shape of the wind on the water...”