Colin Wilson Quotes

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Art is spiritual.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.

Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

You need the art in order to love the life.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.