Art Quotes - Page 350

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.

And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness.

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART".

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?

The way to get the mind of God, is seek to know the heart of God!

We're in this world to bring heaven down to earth.

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.