Quotes About Awareness

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

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.