Bruce Lee Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Teacher, Art

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.16, Tuttle Publishing

• Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Success, Faith

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.126, Tuttle Publishing

• Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Creativity, Men

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.140, Tuttle Publishing

• Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Winning, Mind

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

• When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

  Bruce Lee

  Baby, Art, Fighting

  "Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview". Short, Talk-Show, 1994.

• To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Expression

• To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Martial Arts, Seeing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.66, Tuttle Publishing

• If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Fighting, Training

• To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Cocky

• Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Simplicity, Special

• Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Remember You, Remembers You

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

• The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Cups, Emptiness

• The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Art, Thinking

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

• To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Temporary Defeat, Sith

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.363, Tuttle Publishing

• My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Fighting, Style

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.

• The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Form, Art Is

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

• When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Art, Maturity

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

• Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Enlightenment, Liberty

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

• Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Empty Mind, Water

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

• Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Reflection, Soul

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.136, Tuttle Publishing

• A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Art, Mind

• I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Flower, Roots

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

• Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Achievement, Today

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.327, Tuttle Publishing

• A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Responsibility, Accepting

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.

• A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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