"Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious."

-- D.T. Suzuki

#Art Quotes #Technique Quotes #Growing Quotes

“It's the same world, and only separated by what you physically see. Just because you do not see a male sex worker trying to sell himself on the strip or in the casino, doesn't mean he has not participated on the down low.”
“The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.”
“I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.”
“Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?”
“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”
“All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.”
“My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.”
“Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.”

Source : 'Daisy' (1913)

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