“Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.” WorldMeanArtDoneConsciousnessRevolutionChanging The WorldSlogansHippiePsychedelic Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.” ArtRealitySpiritIndividualChristRealizingConsciousnessPossibilityPerceptionConnectedness Author:Alex Grey
“Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.” ArtGuyPowerfulConsciousnessImpossibleArt IsMysteriousThank GodMosesErase Author:Cass McCombs
“I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.” LongArtConsciousnessArt Is Author:Marina Abramovic
“Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.” ArtConsciousnessPathDivineWalkingConvictionRecognitionBroadsAssuredSympatheticEndeavour Author:Franz Liszt
“To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.” ArtRememberConsciousnessWillingComfortZoneVentureComfort ZonePsychicsDisbelief Author:Jerry Saltz
“A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.” ArtActorsForceConsciousnessStrangeRhythmClockStreamsMovieWorks Of ArtMetaphysicalInhumanAlgorithmsStream Of Consciousness Author:Jerry Saltz
“Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.” WorldLittlesArtConsciousnessMysteryExpectationsArt IsRealizationConcreteVeilsPointlessArtifacts Book:Duma Key: A Novel Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.” ArtFormConsciousnessDrugConvinced Author:Madeleine L'Engle