Deena Metzger Quotes

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Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Deena Metzger
To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.

Deena Metzger
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves — these are continuous with one another.

Deena Metzger
I'll tell you how to get up in the morning......watch for the dawn.

Deena Metzger
The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

Deena Metzger
For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue.

Deena Metzger
For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

Deena Metzger
One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.

Deena Metzger
Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

Deena Metzger