We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We control the content of our dreams.
I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
You can't escape from what you are.
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.