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Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you can't lie.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.
If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.
Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.
Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed