“I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.” WayTryingBitsConsciousnessEnemyListeningHip HopHipsContradictionHopsDiverseExploringRealisedSamplingPublic EnemiesHip Hop Music Author:Chris Ofili
“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.” BitsConsciousnessPaintingHabitPureCompositionShameless Author:Kazimir Malevich
“Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.” LongIdeasBitsConsciousnessTypeStreamsThemeStream Of Consciousness Author:Joe Rogan
“The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.” WayMindLittlesStatesHandsSchoolUsedBitsConsciousnessMysteryKeysLittle BitTrainingMethodAncientProjectionHintsAlteredCurriculumStates Of ConsciousnessAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki