“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

If you come from art, you’ll always be art.

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

I learned to make art with my broken heart.

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.