Ken Wilber Quotes

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.

When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

There is creation in the eye.