Alex Grey Quotes

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

Alex Grey

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• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Community
  • Doing
  • Theater

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Art
  • Movie

• My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Family
  • School
  • Art

• I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Community

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Table

• The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • Art
  • Moment

• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Community

• We open our door, and we are still committed to open our door for our brothers in Syria. But doesn't mean that we should not keep alone. The international community should really - should really share Lebanon the numbers of refugees and share Lebanon the cost of their living.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Community
  • Alone
  • Door

• I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Amazing
  • Fans

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Community

• Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Fear

• The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Environment
  • Meet

• Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Teacher
  • Musicians
  • Reach

• What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Choices
  • Cost

• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Heart
  • Conservatism
  • Ecology

• If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Risk
  • Ourselves
  • Emerged

• When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Art
  • Community
  • Advance