Quotes About Awareness

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

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

What's so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven't even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

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.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Art and politics have many things in common.

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

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

The power of art can open our minds.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?