Psychedelic Art Quotes

I'm a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I've made some psychedelic birthday cakes.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

They call me the trippy king.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.

Visionary art sure has played a vital role in my own "soul's journey," and I would say it's been important for many artists and viewers throughout history. Visionary art is one of the primary ways that human contact with higher subtle dimensions gets translated into our communally shared physical dimension.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

I am very inspired by the Seventies.

In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.