Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

To love beauty is to see light.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

There is creation in the eye.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?" He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.