“Artists are mystics rather than rationalists.”

— Sol LeWitt

“In art it is necessary to study ‘occultism’—the hidden side of life.
The artist must be a clairvoyant: he must see that which others do not see."

— P.D. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum

“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind;
anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
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The artist is a visionary, not in the sense of a politician with a plan,
but in the sense of a prophet who sees the unseen and brings it back to the people.
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What we call imagination is the universal library of what’s real.
The artist dips into that, pulls out a fragment, and says, ‘Look at this!’
And if they’re good, it resonates with everybody,
because it’s not just their imagination,
it’s the imagination of the cosmos.”

— Terence McKenna