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Bruce Lee Quotes about Art

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The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

Art, Cups, Emptiness

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

Art, Fighting, Training

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

Art, Movement, Martial Arts

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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.

Art, Temporary Defeat, Sith

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

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

Art, Form, Art Is

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

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

Art, Martial Arts, Seeing

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

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

Art, Empty Mind, Water

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

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Art, Creativity, Imagination

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

Inspiring, Teacher, Art

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

Teacher, Art, Mind

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

Art, Moving, Fighting

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Art, Empty Mind, Dying

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

Art, Essence, Way

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing

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

Art, Enlightenment, Liberty

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

Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

Art, Mean, Differences

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

Art, Self, Guy

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

Art, Self

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Art, Expression, Athletic

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

Art, Flower, Mind

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.15, Tuttle Publishing

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

Art, Responsibility, Accepting

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

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

Art, Vision, World

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

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

Art, Style, Genius

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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

Art, Reflection, Soul

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

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.

Inspirational, Art, Maturity

"Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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

Art, Remember You, Remembers You

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

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