25 Quotes by Alex Grey
Alex Grey is an American visionary artist known for his intricate and highly-detailed paintings that explore themes such as consciousness, spirituality, and the nature of the universe. Grey's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation. Grey's art is known for its intense and otherworldly imagery, which often features representations of the human body and mind in various states of transcendence. (Bio)
Alex Grey Quotes
Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful. (Meaning)
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.
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.
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.
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.
It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. (Meaning)
The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.
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.
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator
You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed !
I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth
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.
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.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
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.
An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."
During an Ecstasy, LSD or mushroom experience, many people feel unbounded compassion for others and themselves. During a trip, the typical boundaries of our identity dissolve and you're able to experience your unity with all dimensions of reality simultaneously. It can be overwhelming, but it can also be a guidepost and affirmation of the soul's mission in life. A good trip can help us see and feel how perfect, beautiful and precious the world is, despite news reports to the contrary we get from CNN.
― Alex Grey Quotes
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