Quotes About Awareness

You see what you know!

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

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 is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

Art is about paying attention.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

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

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

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.

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.