Quotes About Awareness

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

I look for what needs to be done

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Art is the consciousness of currency.

Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

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 only abstract when you look the other way.

Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

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

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.