Alex Grey Quotes

#1. St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution oil painting by Alex Grey, 2006 color image in the book Net of Being by Alex Grey, 2012

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#2. I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

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#3. The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

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#6. 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

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#7. Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.

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#8. The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

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#9. Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

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#10. I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.

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#11. Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

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#12. My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.

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#13. Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

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#14. The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

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#15. It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

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#16. Age is a seasoned trickster. To our parents, we will always be children. Within ourselves, the same yearnings of youth; the same aspirations of adolescence, will last a lifetime. Only to the young - blinded by our grey hair and slowing gait - do we appear old and increasingly beyond the pale.

Alex Morritt

#17. It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

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#18. Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.

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#19. 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.

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#20. When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.

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#21. The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.

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#22. Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.

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#23. Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.

Skylar Grey

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

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#25. 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.

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#26. Certainly a painting can be reductionistically described by its physical properties only: its shape, the paint, the design, and so forth. But every artwork that exists is both an individual thing, a whole unto itself, and simultaneously a part of the matrix of forces that brought it into being.

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#27. The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.

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#28. My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

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#29. I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth

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#30. In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

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#31. It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

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#32. To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

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#33. The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

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

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#35. 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 !

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