"If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art."
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"You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event."
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"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."
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"Things live by moving and gain strength as they go."
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"Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known."
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"Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience."
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"Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it."
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"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."
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"When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree"
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"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."
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"The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped."
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"Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock."
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"Art is a jealous mistress."
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"It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem."
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"I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven."
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"That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you."
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"Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art."
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