“in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen”

“NOTHING happens by coincidence.”

“It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music,sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended toproduce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulaeto make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, anymore than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself.Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to makethings happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.”

“The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers”

“Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.”

“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.”

“The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.”