"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."

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Source : Interview with Nina Pak, miroirmagazine.com. June 6, 2014.

Alex Grey

#Art Quotes #Eye Quotes #Sight Quotes

“My daughter MacKenzie is so important to me. I have a tattoo on my arm for her. My roommate gave me the name for her.”
“Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space...We are destined to explore and colonize the universe.”
“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.”
“God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.”
“I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.”

Source : Edward Dmytryk (1978). “It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living”, Crown
“I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.”
“Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.”
“I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.”

Source : Bette Greene (1984). “Summer of my German soldier”, Starfire

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