Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the…

In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of…

— Pavel Florensky

When the dream is right for the person and the person is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other.

— John C. Maxwell

How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

— Adi Shankara

Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps…

— Sigmund Freud

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

— Annie Dillard

Wake up just doesn't mean waking up for school/work it also mean's waking up for life.

— Tony Salameh

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as…

— Sigmund Freud

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it…

— Aaron Koblin

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

— Rene Magritte

The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so.…

— Jim Woodring

Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured…

— Alex Garland

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent…

— William Golding