“Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.”
As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 137
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Source: "Notes on the Theory of Organization," 1937, p. 43

Tablet to ‘Him Who Will Be Made Manifest’

Old Path White Clouds : Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha (1991)

“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself”
Source: The Theater and Its Double

Talk at an Enlarged Central Work Conference (30 January 1962)
1960s
Original: (zh-CN) 批评和自我批评是一种方法,是解决人民内部矛盾的方法,而且是唯一的方法。

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 398