Alex Grey
Alex Grey
Alex Greyis an American visionary artist, author, teacher, and Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department. He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of The Chapel of Sacred...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth29 November 1953
CityColumbus, OH
CountryUnited States of America
The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.
The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.
When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: the eye of contemplation, the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.
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 became really interested in the study of consciousness.