Quotes About Growth

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

We're all works of art in progress.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.