19 Quotes by Austin Osman Spare

My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun – all embracing – associating in the form – vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness.

Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

Art can contradict Science.

The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.

The one law of Art is its own spontaneity, its pleasure and freedom. How mystic, pure and simple is its wish; it has no idea of potential divinity! Decoration is its creed and vital allegory is its belief. Being the ‘Free Morality,’ it has no sin – then most assuredly Art is all we dare express without excuse.