Quotes of: Art-student Keyword

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

The Piano Teacher

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure

Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it’s a sunken statue—in a river of lava.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The solutions all are simple—after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Zen in the Art of Writing

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

Zen in the Art of Writing

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

Zen in the Art of Writing

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

Scott Adkins

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

Thoughts on Art and Life

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

On the Decay of the Art of Lying