Alex Grey

“The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.”

“God's inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can't cease to blather about it.”

“A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service of consciousness transformation.”

“Religion comes from the word 're' or again and 'ligare' meaning to bind or tie back. The purpose of religion is to unite the self with God or the creative force. Music, sacred spaces, and meaningful icons are the way we conjoin our minds with the transcendental.”

“Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.”

“My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.”

“I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.”

“A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.”

“I want my art to help people reimagine God.”

“I became really interested in the study of consciousness.”

“Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility.”

“The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.”

“Art is the skin of the soul.”

“Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.”

“I put the cult in culture.”

“What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.”

“It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.”

“In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.”

“Love is God's secret name.”

“It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.”