but does it float

Art is the big door, but real life is a lot of small doors that you must pass through to create something new

Drawings by Moebius (Jean Giraud) Title: Moebius More Moebius Folkert

Moebius, Jean Giraud, drawing, comic, psychedelic, Ligne claire, french, Jimi Hendrix

The hallucinatory operators are real

Drawings by Moebius (Jean Giraud) Title: William Burroughs More Moebius Folkert

Moebius, Jean Giraud, drawing, comic, psychedelic, Ligne claire, french

Also, common everyday things may seem to be abnormally beautiful or interesting. He reported that mountains that he had observed many times before appeared to be so beautiful that he could barely stand looking at them

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mati klarwein, painting, psychedelic art

I’m fascinated by the ways in which my paintings can reference at once psychedelia, science fiction, modernism, the rococo, decadence, and hermetic texts—wholesome, natural beauty, and toxic, synthetic glamour.

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gorden terry, painting, psychedelic art

Who knows how long I’ve loved you, you know I love you still. Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to I will.

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alan aldridge, psychedelic art, the beatles, 60s, book covers

案ずるより産むが易し。

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keiichi tanaami, illustration, painting, psychedelic, 60s

And then when I went to Chicago, that’s when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets

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record covers, retrofuture, psychedelic, sun ra

The creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters

Japanese graphic designer Kiyoshi Awazu (1929 – 2009), known for his contributions to poster and urban design, was consistently considered among the upper echelon of Japanese graphic designers throughout his career, which began in the...

Kiyoshi Awazu, posters, psychedelic, illustration

... as though in a miraculous hour it has become aware of the law that shapes it and begins to strive toward the fulfillment of its being

Paintings by J.J. Cromer Title: Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game Folkert

J.J. Cromer, painting, psychedelic

We slip into Tientai caves, Home is a hole, And a hole’s where nothing is. We visit people unseen — Chewing magic mushrooms, Underneath tall pines. We talk about the past and present, And sigh at the world gone mad.

Paintings by Christian Hidaka Title: Shih Pe (9th century) (via Max Wigram Gallery) Folkert

Christian Hidaka, painting, psychedelic, japan

Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view

Drawings by Moebius (Jean Giraud) Title: Baudrillard Previously on Moebius: one, two Folkert

Moebius, Jean Giraud, drawing, comic, psychedelic, Ligne claire, french

I am held aloft by angels, even when they seem to have abandoned me

Images and a quote by Richard Baily (1953–2006) "Hollywood shows little patience with true artistry, let alone a reclusive computer genius like Baily who is an intense,...

richard baily, animation, film, visual music

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