Quotes About Transformation

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Art is a wound turned into light.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

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

We make art out of our loss.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.