Austin Osman Spare Quotes

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

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

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

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

It was the straying that found the path direct.

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.

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.

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

Embrace reality by imagination.

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.

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

Art can contradict Science.