Mike Tyson on art
Mike Tyson91 quotes“You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.”
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.
Mike TysonMike Tyson I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
Mike TysonMike Tyson The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
Mike TysonMike Tyson There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.
Mike TysonMike Tyson I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”
Mike TysonMike Tyson We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
Mike TysonMike Tyson In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you’re not a friend to yourself, there’s no way you’re gonna have any friends.
Mike TysonMike Tyson I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
Mike TysonMike Tyson It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
Mike TysonMike Tyson I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
Mike TysonMike Tyson When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
Mike TysonMike Tyson I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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Art is mostly a long stroll in the wilderness of one’s own heart.
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Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer I was born from nature therefore, I am art.
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Karl PopperKarl Popper To be an artist is to look at a tragedy and innately see the beauty in it.
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