Art Quote by Alma Gluck

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described.…

— Aleister Crowley

“He who deceives another deceives himself much more. Therefore know the Charlatans by their love of rich robes, ceremony, ritual, magical retirements, absurd conditions,…

— Austin Osman, Spare

“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself and give…

— Karen Horney

A prodigy conceives a higher ego to elude the torment of being misconstrued by his own kind

— Juju

“thus it is that egoists have always the last word; having posited at the start that their resolution is unshakeable, the more susceptible the…

— Marcel Proust

“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is…

— Ingmar Bergman

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his…

— Criss Jami

“Sacrifice of the self is the source of all humiliation, as also on the contrary is the foundation of all true exaltation. The first…

— Novalis

“Furthermore, any teaching that puts the spotlight of attention on the workings of the ego will necessarily provoke egoic reaction, resistance, and attack.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it.…

— Henry Adams

Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically…

— Frederick Lenz

“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these…

— Kilroy J. Oldster