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MAN RAY ~ IMAGINATION

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“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.”
Man Ray

LEON SPILLIEAERT ~ MAGICAL STAIRCASE

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Vertigo, Magic Staircase (1908) by Leon Spillieaert
Belgian artist 1881-1946

LEONORA CARRINGTON ~ THE RECITAL OF DREAMS

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the recital of dreams

You DO know that you are a dream don’t you?
Do you realize how completely alone the Divine Being is?
All that there is is only this Divine Being.
Our Beloved, our Self!
To hide from the Truth the Divine Beloved dreams that It is You!
And Me and All of US!!!
An infinately multiple personality
Look deeply inside of your self.
You will find only Me.
You and Me and Me and You!
But one of us is the other’s dream…
One of us must, in the end, die the death of a lie and the Other return to its aloneness.
But what good is this Truth?
Shall we not have pity on Our Self then and continue dreaming that We are You and I and I and You?
Let’s us live a little longer in this dream
Until we can no longer look into each other’s eyes, fool our selves and see another.
One day my dear mask, my poor victim, That shall crush in upon you and wash you helpless into an ocean you have long forgotten like a grain of sand.
Drowning, you will be forced to release yourself and return to Self.

Leonora Carrington

FREUD ~ ON DREAMWORK

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“The dreamwork is not simply more careless, more irrational, more forgetful and more incomplete than waking thought: it is completely different from it qualitatively and for that reason not immediately comparable with it. It does not think, calculate or judge in any way at all: it restricts itself to giving things a new form.”
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of dreams, 1900

ANAIS NIN ~ REALITY AND IMAGINATION

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“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do”

Anais Nin

EDGAR ALLEN POE ~ ON DREAMING

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allen Poe

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