Quotes about art
art book reading
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short. Arthur Schopenhauer
art fear philosophical
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
art house film
The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films. Arjun Rampal
art fees
There's no art where there's no fee. Aristophanes
art triumph argument
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
art philosophy exercise
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own. Antonio Gramsci
art cinema form
Cinema is an art form. Anurag Kashyap
art empty-mind ambitious
Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying. Bruce Lee
art moving mastery
Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
art opportunity expression
The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.
art mean warrior
...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge?...to put the heart of martial arts inyour own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension and the use of a free style. When you have that you will know that there are no limits.
art creativity imagination
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
art creativity absolute-freedom
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.
art self
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.
art self individual
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
art psychics vision
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.
art flower mind
The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.
art lying mean
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
art hard-work skills
The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.
art winning mind
Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
art vision world
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.
art fighting style
My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
art form art-is
The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form
art flower roots
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.
art mean express-yourself
To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.
art lying cocky
To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.
art cups emptiness
The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.
art self essence
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.
art exercise endurance
The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.
art movement martial-arts
What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.
art empty-mind water
Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
artist mastery doe
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
art temporary-defeat sith
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.