“The only difference between the mystic and the artist is that the artist has a craft that ties him
to the world.”—Joseph Campbell

“The mind cannot either create or recognize beauty”—Eckhart Tolle

“All images come from the past, but they may also be carriers of high frequency presence.”
—Eckhart Tolle

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner
stillness.”—Eckhart Tolle

“Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through the gap formed by
present-moment awareness, that clear space of infinite possibility.”—Eckhart Tolle

“When we are really seeing, we are in a state of love."—Krishnamurti

“Relative beauty is the opposite of relative ugly. Relative beauty if defined by opinion, or 'golden'
geometric proportions found in nature. Absolute beauty is the physical manifestation of the 'light'
of Consciousness. Words cannot describe it but approximations would be: Transluscent, sparkling,
glowing, brilliant. It is easily seen in the faces of babies, pregnant mothers, during true lovemaking,
and sometimes in the eyes of the dieing.”—Krishnamurti

“My first interest is in Being—along the way I am a painter.”—Morris Graves

Sculpture title: “The Opposite of Life is Not Death, the Opposite of Life is Time.”—Morris Graves

“White lines symbolize higher states of consciousness.”—Mark Tobey

“I want to smash form and release the light within.”—Mark Tobey

“The walls are hanging with painted corpses… Why don’t art schools have classes on how to
remain aware?”—M ark Tobey

“I don’t think art comes from art. A lot of artists apparently think so. I think it comes from the
awakening person. Awakening is what you might call the spiritual. . . Everything tends toward
awakening.” —Isamu Noguchi

“The new art…can be seen and understood through pure contemplation that is free of the limitations
of time and space.” — Piet Mondrian

"When I paint it is an experience that is transcending reality. When it is working, you completely go
into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, of the total consciousness,
completely beyond your ego and your own self" —Keith Haring

“Isn’t the ultimate desire of human beings to perceive an order that surpasses us yet is within us,
to participate in that order?”—Paul Klee

“The role of the artist is to reflect back a greater, universal order”. Isn’t this the purpose of all
artistic quest?”—Paul Klee

“The act of painting can be understood as a work of contemplation, of meditation, through which
the artist can rediscover and remember what is in his deepest nature, his primal consciousness
—and by that summon the same in response from the viewer?”—Paul Klee

“The artist does nothing other than gather and pass on what comes to him from his depths. He
neither serves nor rules—he transmits.”—Paul Klee

“Art today lacks spiritual purpose”—Paul Klee

“Color and I are one.”—Paul Klee

“It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly,
as the result of deep inner experience…”—Alfred Stieglitz

“The artist must be free to recognize the living moment when it occurs, and to let it flower, without
preconceived ideas about what it should be.”—Alfred Stieglitz

“Art is the affirmation of life.”—Alfred Stieglitz

“…my painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives me. . .”—Georgia O’Keeffe

“The inner command is to allow oneself to fall into one’s own essence.”—Julius Bissier

“Pictures must come like breathing”—Julius Bissier

“Pretend ugliness is true ugliness”—Jim Dine

“I don’t express myself in my painting. I express my not-self”.” —Mark Rothko

“Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never
deciphers life.”—Constantin Brancusi

“There is a purpose in all things. To reach it, one must be detached from oneself.’—Constantin Brancusi

“The journey is really within oneself.”—Constantin Brancusi

“Once a bird came into my studio. When it wanted to leave, it couldn’t find the way and threw itself
in confusion against the walls and windows. Another bird came into my studio, rested for a few
moments and then flew off, easily find its way to the sky. With artists, it’s the same.”—Constantin Brancusi

“There has been no art yet.”—Constantine Brancusi

“What I do, I do not wish to blame on Zen, though without my engagement with Zen. . .I doubt whether
I would have done what I have done.”—John Cage

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better”.” —Andre Gide

“The artist leads us to sense our own stillness between activities, and beyond that a deeper
abiding stillness.”— Roger Lipsey