Consciousness Quote by Nigel Cooke Download Open image “Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.” — Nigel Cooke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consciousness Metaphor Painting Philosophy of Mind
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart Copy Share Image
Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields.… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my mind and… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
“I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“People and situations always show us what we need to see and learn about ourselves, and when we take responsibility for our own feelings,… — Eliza Mada Dalian Copy Share Image
With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai… — Dylan Gelulla Copy Share Image
“The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
