Alex Grey Quotes

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

All I ever wanted to do was make things. My whole life has been a constant evolution on that theme.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

Always try to reinvent myself; never try to stay the same person, because that's how people figure you out.

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.

You are the imagination of yourself.

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.