“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.” WayMindArtSelfBodyArtistFightingWinningEmotionSituationHealthBuddhismArt IsMartial ArtsCombatMasterySelf MasteryAthleticsMind BodyMartial Artist Author:Frederick Lenz
“What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.” WayMeanArtProblemSituationModernFindingsApproachArt IsPainfulFixedNew WaysDefiniteExpress YourselfBourgeoisModernismModern ArtPainful Situations Book:Bourgeois Source: Bourgeois
“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.” KnowsArtMadeCharacterEffortSituationAcceptingGreaterAcceptanceOrdinaryArt IsStriveEverydayIncline Author:Lawren Harris
“Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.” ArtSelfRealitySocialSituationCommunicationArt IsConnectionsSufficientDistortionCorrectionsSelf SufficientModificationUnendurable Author:Jean Tinguely
“I think it's important to remember that an artist could be at the center of healing our problems because, every day, that's what we do. Every day, our job is to make something that wasn't there before. We're kind of built to go into situations that need a kind of fresh thought to solve them so I'm happy about that and I would encourage anyone with any problem in the world that needs to be solved to consider having any person in the creative arts be at the core of its solution. I think that's one of our unused or untapped values.” ThinkingWorldKindArtImportantProblemRememberArtistValuesHealingSituationCreativeSolutionsArt IsCreative Art Author:David Lang
“Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.” WayArtSituationArt IsExpress YourselfBad Situations Author:Russell Simmons