Jean Arp Quotes

Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

I want people to find their inner depth.

In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite.

As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

I'm actually very spiritual.

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two.

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

Our heart always transcends us.

A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

Through our soul is our contact with heaven.

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.