Quotes About Philosophy

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

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

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

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.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.