Collectives Quote by Alex Grey

“Painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.”

— Ben Nicholson

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

— Lawren Harris

Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Our mandala is indeed an 'eye,' the structure of which symbolizes the centre of order in the unconscious. The eye is a hollow sphere,…

— C.G. Jung

“The Tibetan monks make mandalas out of dyed sand laid out into big, beautiful designs. And when they’re done, after days or weeks of…

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a…

— Nikolai Gogol

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

— Max Eastman

“Everything intellectual and transcendent is joined together in painting by the uninterrupted labour of the eyes. Each shade of a flower, a face, a…

— Max Beckmann

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare…

— Douglas Preston