It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There was a wonderful old man [...] who had a piece of property [...] he would rent out for twenty dollards a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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