Quotes About Awareness

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!

There is no gap between art and politics.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

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

Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

I really do appreciate the awareness and the hype that the fans are creating. I, myself, have become totally addicted to checking out the fan art.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

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

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.

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