Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities? Dorothy Norman More Quotes by Dorothy Norman More Quotes From Dorothy Norman Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world. Dorothy Norman battle creative hero Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death. Dorothy Norman quests hero men Without Satan, no Christ. Dorothy Norman satan devil christ Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire. Dorothy Norman fire fear loss To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts. Dorothy Norman posture hero