Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility. Alex Grey More Quotes by Alex Grey More Quotes From Alex Grey Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing. Alex Grey surfing space creative 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. Alex Grey love-life mountain love-is Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful. Alex Grey powerful artist beautiful The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become. Alex Grey art-is purpose art Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive. Alex Grey alive boundaries love-is 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 eye sight art The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness. Alex Grey dimensions independent levels Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force. Alex Grey force creativity consciousness 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 important journey art When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness. Alex Grey oneness mirrors eye The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything. Alex Grey flow soul It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to. Alex Grey taken-for-granted alive trying 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. Alex Grey medicine philosophy memories In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. Alex Grey individuality trying thinking The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source. Alex Grey eye reflection self 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 ! Alex Grey creativity eye forever 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 perception reality art 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 Alex Grey ego artist mind I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth Alex Grey energy fields earth 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 eye mind art
