Art Quotes
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.
I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.
The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.
There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.
I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.
Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.
It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.
I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.
Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.
Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.
If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.
If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.
The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.
In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.
We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts.
Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.
The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.
Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.
In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.
Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.
The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game
Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.
They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.
