"All art is concerned with coming into..." - Quote by Aristotle

“No science ever defends its first principles.”

“All learning is derived from things previously known.”

“He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.”

“I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.”

“Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.”

“Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.”

“The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.”

“grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.”

“Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.”