Clive Barker Quotes

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

When we shift our perception, our experience changes.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you.

What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or allows to consider the world in a slightly different way.

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.