Quotes from Alex Grey

The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.

My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

The more religions are fixated on having a dogmatic sense of truth, the more likely they are to blow each other up. So being open to God as a creative principle could provide for a new kind of dialogue between the faiths, which I think is crucial at this time.

An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

God's inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can't cease to blather about it.

Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

Art is the skin of the soul.

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.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.

I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.

Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility.

I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

I think sound and vision are all vibratory emanations... it's the way the soul flowers: art and music.

When you see the face of God, or when you have an overwhelming, ecstatic, blissful, visionary experience; there is no doubt about it. It isn't like, 'Did it happen?' It's unforgettable. And you are a changed person in some way.

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.