Quotes About Progress

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

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

Consider everything an experiment.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

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

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Time is the great art of man.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

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.

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

We're all works of art in progress.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

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

I get angry about things, then go on and work.