Quotes About Consciousness

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.

It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

As thou thinkest, so art thou.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.