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It is your very essence, and it is immediately accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence, the realization I am that is prior to I am this or I am that.
When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.
I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become.
You Are Filled With The Content Of Your Pursuit
To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something ... is immune from change and shines out ... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.
No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.
There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.
I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.
A glint of intention initiates the process of creation.
Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.
The essential is invisible to eyes
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
The beauty you see in others in within you.
Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.
The true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
That imminence of a revelation that is not yet produced, is perhaps the aesthetic reality.
When you rest in quietness and
your image of yourself fades, and
your image of the world fades, and
your ideas of others fade, what's left?
A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.
Enlightenment is the experience of pure light.
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely.
Art is the essence of awareness.
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
Curiosity lights a fire;
wisdom illuminates it.
Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.
Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
I
this thought which is called I
is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.
Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation.
To see the object as in itself it really is
Enlightenment is light.
I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony ...
When we focus our thoughts on something, we resonate with it. When that resonance is constant and directed, we draw it to us.
The majesty of a glowing light shines from within - CV
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of them; and third, by relating them to his own personal self. The illumined egoless man is simply aware of them, without any of these other added activities.
Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.
We're a feeling, an awareness encased here
Mind gleams in every atom of the Universe.
Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.
Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that ... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.
The one radiance shines through all things.
Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.
What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must ... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.
The reproduction of
what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
This moment of yours, and the telling of it, these are the tools of navigating the internal space. Knowing the moment and knowing about the moment.
Art is the refreshing source of existence.
Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.
Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.
There is a deep light within my soul.
Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.
Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.
Indomitable soul encompasses a beautiful heart and a beautiful smile.
Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through the window into another person's home, but it is my face that I see in the reflection.
Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.
Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable.
Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow ... The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.
... that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.
I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once done, it becomes my duty to go back to the cave in order to illuminate the minds of those imprisoned in the 'darkness' of sensory knowledge.
It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition.
Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness
That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.
Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.
Corporeal reality is much more rich and precious than we realize. It feels good to have a body, to surge on currents of emotion, to have nerve endings, mitochondria in our cells, tangible focused energy, the embodiment of light - given a voice.
Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.
SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray
From the great source of mental Day,
Free, generous, and refin'd!
Descend with all thy treasures fraught,
Illumine each bewilder'd thought,
And bless my labour'g mind.
When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
The light that brings the dawn.
Love like every creation is your own reflections.
There is something hidden in each sensation.
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable ... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities ... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being ...
But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon.
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
Memory - the very skin of life.