black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Joseph Campbell

It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Demon Himself Man Tame World
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Darkness Life Lost Need
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Clear Path Yourself
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Artist Function Problem Spiritual
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength Yourself
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Big Hero Herself Life
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Hell Myself Need
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fact Forget People Remember Story
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Follow Life Oneself Yourself
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fate Guide Journey Path
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Capability God Oneself Worship

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Joseph Campbell Quotes