Best Quotes by Austin Osman Spare (Top 10)

  1. The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am.
  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.
  3. And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.
  4. 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.
  5. Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity
  6. Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.
  7. The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.
  8. It was the straying that found the path direct.
  9. In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.
  10. Art can contradict Science.