Alex Grey Quotes

People generally begin to understand my work after they’ve had some experience with the subtle visionary inner-worlds. These altered states can occur in many ways, from meditation to psychedelics to near-death experiences. A fellow in Japan came to my exhibit and showed me a five-inch elliptical scar over his heart where he had been struck nearly dead by lightning. He claimed that he had entered the "universal mind lattice," one of the "sacred mirrors" I’ve painted, during his near-death experience. What these various experiences or altered states have in common is the person who experiences them is profoundly transformed. They now know there are dimensions beyond the physical that are deeply mysterious and equally infinite to the outer worlds.

I was bom on November 29, 1953, which makes me a Sagittarius. I'm no astrologer, but I am interested in its symbols. The Sagittarian is a centaur archer aiming for the stars. You could say this is the sign of a philosophical idealist, someone who aims high. The horse/human hybrid aiming higher unites the animal body, the human mind and the flaming-arrow spirit. Sagittarius is also a fire sign; fire shows up strongly as a motif in my work.

We seek through art To recover our center, To remember our soul's task, To stop sleepwalking in confusion, To stop managing our depression, To harness the passion of inexhaustible love, To find the One Godself Hidden throughout creation, Art is the scab healing the wound Of the separate self-illusion.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive In a human body at this moment, Endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, And the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

1. GOD CREATES THE COSMOS WITH LOVE. 2. WHEN WE CREATE WITH LOVE WE ALIGN OURSELVES WITH THE GOD FORCE. 3. THE COSMOS AND OUR WORLD IS GOD’S EVOLVING CREATION, AN UNFINISHED MASTERPIECE WE EACH CO-CREATE.

The Artist is a tiny reflection of the One Creative Spirit that generates and is all realities. God creates the cosmos with love. God is the creator of the unfinished masterpiece, "Time/Space Continuum," which each of us helps co-create. The artist faces the blank canvas and invents new realities, and in a very tiny microcosmic way this reflects the macrocosm. The highest art aligns us with the "Divine Imagination," as Blake called it, and empowers our Soul, catalyzing our path to becoming the greatest person we can be.

Like an eruption of consciousness, We discover the source of love. Experience yourself as the Source And appreciate every moment as perfection. Sunrise–Sunset. Thank you, Thank you, Creator; Profound unstoppable connectedness of all beings, Pattern to everything, most radical no-thing, The Vast Expanse.

Bathe your eyes in images Divine, All Heaven unfolds, the opposites combine. Your eyes become temple domes for the Pleides Crystalline mandalas inhabited by Deities. Blessing every moment you see As glimpses of eternity.

Embryonic artworks grow In the womb heart of the artists, Until the fever of making seizes their limbs, And they deliver their art through labors of love.

Life is infinite creative play. Enjoyment and participation in this creative play Is the artists profound joy. We co-author every moment With universal creativity.

We are constantly drawing the line between love and not love — Enter into the Non-duality Zone. All judgements dissolve in the Vast Expanse.

Mystic Art affirms the holy mystery and the ideals of truth, goodness and beauty. No other artistic ideal can fulfill the longing soul like the creation and appreciation of relevant sacred art.