„A musician once said: In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. It is therefore necessary to present oneself with the greatest humility: white, pure and candid with a mind as if empty, in a spiritual state analogous to that of a communicant approaching the Lord’s Table. Obviously it is necessary to have all of one’s experience behind one, but to preserve the freshness of one’s instincts.“

— Henri Matisse

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„To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility…“
— Flannery O’Connor
„Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. — There is "what is" only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.“
— Bruce Lee
„What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.“
— James Joyce
„Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present“
— Cassandra Clare
„There are all kinds of truth… but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.“
— Vincent Van Gogh