Artists Quotes

'An artist who follows the way of contemplative art manifests mystic relations in the psychic being, so this is more often a kind of spiritual practice, rather than a normal fine art activity.'

Oleg Korolev

'Art and Humanity form a unity revealing the idenity of man being created in the image of God - and only man recieved the gift to create'

Ernst Fuchs

'As long as humanity is humanity man will yearn to ascend the heights human footsteps may not tread, and long to lift the veil that shrouds the enigma of being, and he will most prize the echo of this longing in even the incoherent expression of literature, music and art.'

George Frederick Watts

'Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.'

Edvard Munch

'I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.'

William Blake

'If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.'

William Blake

'Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.'

Hildegard von Bingen

'Underneath all the texts, all the sacred psalms and canticles, these watery varieties of sounds and silences, terrifying, mysterious, whirling and sometimes gestating and gentle must somehow be felt in the pulse, ebb, and flow of the music that sings in me. My new song must float like a feather on the breath of God.'

Hildegard von Bingen

'May joy guide every line you draw....you draw them for the Divine! If only I were able to speak of the new Art! It has never before existed....not even for the greatest artists.'

Angel - 'Talking with Angels' transcribed by Gitta Mallasz

'I will speak of creation in art. A work of art is mere matter. A sculpture stands in space. The sculpture itself is not creation; it is a vessel. When the vessel is filled, the drink creates....what was vessel - will be drunk, what was drunk - will be ecstasy.'

Angel - 'Talking with Angels' transcribed by Gitta Mallasz

'The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.'

Edvard Munch

'Mystic Art provides a means for both artist and viewer to align with the creative force and unite with God'

Alex Grey

'God is the Divine Artist - God's sacred art is all of creation'.

Alex Grey