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"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
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"For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose."

"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"

"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"

"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."

"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God."

"It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object."
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"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."

"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been."

"Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it."

"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
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