“The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?” IfsEndsHappensLiteratureIndividualStylePersonalityHabitLoversCloudsChecksBeing TrueStreamsProtestPerpetualQuotationsIndulgeSpontaneityIndulge InInsidiousGood Literature Book:Streaks of life Source: Streaks of life
“Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.” DreamIndividualGreaterEssenceManifestationStreamsCustodians Book:Autobiography of values Source: Autobiography of values
“I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?” KnowsSelfIndividualRaisesMortalsEvolveStreams Book:Autobiography of values Source: Autobiography of values
“The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.” YearsArtDonePastIndividualDealsProduceTraditionOriginalsFakeStreamsHeritageEmphasisCropsEccentricKnowledge And ExperienceIndividual Work Author:John French Sloan
“It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something.” IfsWorldGivingMeanSeemsValuesIndividualInterestIllusionBackgroundsSecurePreservesStreamsCosmosMeaninglessArtificialArbitraryEnglishmen Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what time and what really serves the deeper process that is constantly running like a stream underground. Influence is incessant. Influence is a fact. But, carry a big shovel and dig constantly to clear away all the unessentials so that the origins of mystery and the poetic force of life can get into and inspire the work.” WorldArtFactsBigsRunningArtistIndividualForceProcessClearMysteryInfluenceInspirePhotographerDeeperFactorsStreamsPoeticArt WorldIncessantShovels Author:Paul Caponigro
“We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.” HumansMadeTogetherIndividualNaturalAnimalConsciousnessGroupsElementsFlowIndividualityStreamsLionsTribesMonkeysRestlessShiftingHerdsStream Of Consciousness Author:Anna Louise Strong