Quotes About Openness

THE OPPOSITE OF samsara is when all the walls fall down, when the cocoon completely disappears and we are totally open to whatever may happen, with no withdrawing, no centralizing into ourselves. That is what we aspire to, the warrior's journey.

We can connect with that openness at any time. For instance, right now, for three seconds, just stop reading and pause. If

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test for each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize. The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

The art of life is to show your hand.

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.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.