Quotes on Art

To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.

A black belt is nothing more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of mind and attitude. Even though surrounded By several enemies set to attack, Fight with the thought That they are but one.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.