Alex Grey
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.Collection: Wisdom
A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.Collection: Relationship
What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.Collection: Architecture
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.Collection: Intelligence
The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.Collection: Religion
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.Collection: Society
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility.
I want my art to help people reimagine God.
The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.
The inner artist is not the voice of reason. The inner artist can have wild and impossible ideas... The inner artist is not the voice of comfort.
I became really interested in the study of consciousness.
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.
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.
Art is the skin of the soul.
Love is God's secret name.
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.
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.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
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.
Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.
God's inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can't cease to blather about it.
For some people, maybe my artwork just seems like fantasy or something. However, if you have had any kind of a mystical or cosmic experience, I guess, then people seem to recognize the territory.
When you see the face of God, or when you have an overwhelming, ecstatic, blissful, visionary experience; there is no doubt about it. It isn't like, 'Did it happen?' It's unforgettable. And you are a changed person in some way.
The more religions are fixated on having a dogmatic sense of truth, the more likely they are to blow each other up. So being open to God as a creative principle could provide for a new kind of dialogue between the faiths, which I think is crucial at this time.
Burning Man is a crowning achievement of freedom in festival culture.
I put the cult in culture.
I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.
Religion comes from the word 're' or again and 'ligare' meaning to bind or tie back. The purpose of religion is to unite the self with God or the creative force. Music, sacred spaces, and meaningful icons are the way we conjoin our minds with the transcendental.
A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service of consciousness transformation.
It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.
I think sound and vision are all vibratory emanations... it's the way the soul flowers: art and music.
Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.
Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.Collection: Space
Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Love Life
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Art
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.Collection: Love Is
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.Collection: Creativity
When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.Collection: Eye
The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Art
It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.Collection: Taken For Granted
The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.Collection: Eye
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 CreatorCollection: Artist
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 !Collection: Creativity
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.Collection: Art
I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earthCollection: Energy