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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level. (Ansel Adams)

Awareness can be best achieved and honed through working outside. (Lionel Aggett)

It is in awareness that we bring everything to life that lives within us. There is no time like the present to give birth to creativity. Listen and you will hear. (Kathleen Arnason)

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. (Paul Cezanne)

Skill is less important than awareness. (Graham Collier)

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. (Annie Dillard)

Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other's beautiful faces and complex natures so that Creation need not play to an empty house. (Annie Dillard)

There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around. (Anton Ehrenzweig)

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. (Frederick Franck)

-Stumbling on Happiness...
The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness. (Daniel T. Gilbert)

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. (Jean Helion)

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. (Arthur Koestler)

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. (D. H. Lawrence)

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness. (Peter London)

Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state. (Eric Maisel)

I plan to be more aware of, and enjoy seeing my surroundings artistically without getting caught up in the painting of it. (Ronald Joyce McDowell)

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. (Henry Miller)

Art is the essence of awareness. (Louise Nevelson)

Thank goodness I have walked in circles long enough to wear the soles of my shoes so thin that the diamonds on which I stand can now get my attention. (Anne Wilson Schaef)

It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen. (Anna Louise Strong)

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. (James Thurber)

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity. (Paul Tillich)

-a sign displayed in his studio...
Artist awake or be forever fallen. (Fred Varley)

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)

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