He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings..

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human t….

It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all ….

The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has it….

Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying….

Our fears don't stop death, they stop life..

As far as trying to make it terms of social hierarchy or status and all that in art and music - I've always felt that that stuff was bullshit. It's g….

Freebase? What's free about it?.

Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music he….

You have no beginning of time. It's always been there..

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape….

My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender..

If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates..

I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going ….

I don't really have hobbies. Сombat arts was a hobby that became a career..

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of bui….

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies..

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae….

We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own def….

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art..

Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create huge art, to create huge pieces. ….