“Never be distracted by people’s glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives; search and dig for what really imprisons them.”

Dick Cavett interview (1969)
Context: I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks "wow, I must have been really great" and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.

Source: "Intuitions" (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Source: The Red Pyramid

Quote in a letter to Max Loreau, 29 June, 1963, reprinted in Prospectus II, Jean Dubuffet; Gallimard, Paris, 1967, pp. 374–375
1960-70's

The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Earth (1986)
Source: Part 1 "Gaia", Chapter 1 "The Search Begins" section 4, p. 19

[Lee Rondganger, Artist with unusual technique a Sexpo hit, The Star, South Africa, 28 September 2007, 2, Independent Online]

Source: Jessamyn Stanley is fighting for radical visibility and yoga for every body, Samantha Grasso, Aug 28, 2018, 2018 https://www.dailydot.com/irl/jessamyn-stanley/,