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I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

Alex Grey

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Alex Grey
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: November 29
Artist
Drawer
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Performance Artist
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Columbus
Ohio
Alex V. Grey
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Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.
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Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.
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I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.
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It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
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The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.
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The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
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Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
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