"Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye……" — Alex Grey
"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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35 Quotes by Alex Grey
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You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also…
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Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
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Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively…
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Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.
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Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.
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The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness…
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I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth
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Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper…
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The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.
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The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.
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Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
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When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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