Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.
I've never been baptised. - Quentin S. Crisp
I've never been baptised.
- Quentin S. Crisp
I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products … - Quentin S. Crisp
I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products …
I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness,… - Quentin S. Crisp
I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness,…
I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab. - Quentin S. Crisp
I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.
It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books m… - Quentin S. Crisp
It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books m…
I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle o… - Quentin S. Crisp
I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle o…
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry. - Quentin S. Crisp
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.
I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos. - Quentin S. Crisp
I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
I'm more a dog person than a cat person. - Quentin S. Crisp
I'm more a dog person than a cat person.
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