Franz Marc Quotes

We've never been your traditional rock-pop band. Lyrically, I've always had more of an interest in spirituality and that kind of thing.

I can't help but view the world mystically. It's how I see it. I'm not a strict materialist. I think there's much more to the world than what we see with our five senses.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

Hidden nature is secret God.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Art is spiritual.

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

If you comprehend, it is not God.

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

Everything that is seen and everything that is unseen is God.