Eugene J. Martin Quotes

The words “human nature” can be the greatest obstacle to human growth.

MUSEUM
They came, they looked, they walked
their eyes wide open
they didn’t see
because their minds were closed Their eyes wide open
they didn’t know they couldn’t see
because their minds were closed;
so they looked, and left.

Truth is so large OR people’s minds are so small that they’re only able to nibble on the edges – and when growth brings them to the area where they can feed on truth itself, as they move in and eat of the seed, there they become truth.

Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.

Rather than studying the laws of cause and effect, people spend their lives being the effect and running from the cause.

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.

Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can’t make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself.

The more fortunate people among us would surely think we are civilized, but the less fortunate among us are a reminder that we’re not.

In order to stay clear of pain, we must know and know why we feel best while having pain.

Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.

Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

Money inspires activity, not honesty.

There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.

Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.