Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 125: letter to Georges-Daniel de Monfreid (Tahiti, October 1897)
“[I am] dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.”
Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 81
after 1970, posthumous
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“I resent your calling this a silly myth. I made the myth and it is not silly; charming rather.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 6
Context: I am Aeaea. To my notion there is no other lady anywhere. And I resent your calling this a silly myth. I made the myth and it is not silly; charming rather. Well, come along, come along! You are my things now, and you will come when I call you.
“All cultures … have grown out of myths. They are founded on myths.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Lecture 1B, 8:20
Mythology and the Individual (1997)
Context: All cultures … have grown out of myths. They are founded on myths. What these myths have given has been inspiration for aspiration. The economic interpretation of history is for the birds. Economics is itself a function of aspiration. It’s what people aspire to that creates the field in which economics works.
Albert Hofmann (1906–2008) Swiss chemist
Source: LSD : My Problem Child (1980), Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality
Context: As a path to the perception of a deeper, comprehensive reality, in which the experiencing individual is also sheltered, meditation, in its different forms, occupies a prominent place today. The essential difference between meditation and prayer in the usual sense, which is based upon the duality of creator-creation, is that meditation aspires to the abolishment of the I-you-barrier by a fusing of object and subject, of sender and receiver, of objective reality and self.
Objective reality, the world view produced by the spirit of scientific inquiry, is the myth of our time. It has replaced the ecclesiastical-Christian and mythical-Apollonian world view.
But this ever broadening factual knowledge, which constitutes objective reality, need not be a desecration. On the contrary, if it only advances deep enough, it inevitably leads to the inexplicable, primal ground of the universe: the wonder, the mystery of the divine — in the microcosm of the atom, in the macrocosm of the spiral nebula; in the seeds of plants, in the body and soul of people.
Robert M. Price (1954) American theologian
[Price, Robert M., w:Robert M. Price, Deconstructing Jesus, https://books.google.com/books?id=VJh1H-hf5EwC&pg=PA85, 2000, Prometheus Books, Publishers, 978-1-61592-120-1, 85]
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
Source: Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins (2007), Ch. 2, p. 39
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
The Paris Review interview (1982)
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)