104 Quotes by Neel Burton

An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

In the end, the best victory is the one that looks like a defeat.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

In America, they use exclamation marks to make everything terrific, in France to make everything terrible, but here in England we don't use them at all.

Funny how a new piece of understanding immediately seems self-evident, even when it took half a lifetime of struggle and stagnation to acquire.

The very purpose of an ego defence such as reification (or indeed any ego defence) is, as the name implies, to protect and uphold a certain crystallized notion of self or 'I'. There is therefore an important sense in which the reifying self is itself reified.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I’m talking about.

When we imagine an alien planet, we rarely imagine it to be divided into countries – because that would be, you know, backward.

Whenever you’re about to engage in something with an ethical dimension, always ask yourself, “Is this who I wanted to be on the best day of my life?