D. T. Suzuki Quotes

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

D. T. Suzuki

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
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• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
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• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
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• Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Love
  • Art

• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Rock

• The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • Art
  • Moment

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Women
  • Art

• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Art
  • Skating
  • Figure Skating

• It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Art
  • Road

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'

  

  Yaya Han
  • Art
  • Like
  • Artist

• The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Kids

• Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; I must be here confined by you, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Spirit
  • Helping

• Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Trump

• We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.

  

  Bernie Taupin
  • May

• Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Art
  • Unconscious