Alex Grey Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Purpose, Art Is

  Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

• Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Eye, Mind

• The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Eye, Sight

  Interview with Nina Pak, miroirmagazine.com. June 6, 2014.

• When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Giving, Community

  Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

• Visionary art sure has played a vital role in my own "soul's journey," and I would say it's been important for many artists and viewers throughout history. Visionary art is one of the primary ways that human contact with higher subtle dimensions gets translated into our communally shared physical dimension.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Journey, Important

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Healing, Reality

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Reality, Perception

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Worldview, Art Is

• I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can plant a seed for liberation in the individual. That class of objects is called "liberation through seeing." Certain Buddha images are like that, but if it were possible, I would like to find contemporary non-traditional sacred images. Maybe it sounds pretentious, but most spiritual paths point to the possibility that we all can access the deep, absolute dimensions of reality.

  Alex Grey

  Spiritual, Art, Buddhist

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

  Alex Grey

  Art, People, Path

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

  "LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey's Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. March 24, 2008.

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