Bruce Lee Quotes About Art

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

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.66, Tuttle Publishing
  • The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

    Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated
  • All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

    "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".
  • My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

    "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.
  • The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

    Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated
  • 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 (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated
  • 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 (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated
  • Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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

    Self  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

    "Tao of Jeet Kune Do".
  • Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

    Self  
  • I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

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

    Men  
    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.140, Tuttle Publishing
  • Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing
  • Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

  • Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

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

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

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

    Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated
  • If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

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

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

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.363, Tuttle Publishing
  • You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.27, Tuttle Publishing
  • Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

  • All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing
  • The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.

    "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".
  • The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

    Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated
  • 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: The Lost Interview". Short, Talk-Show, 1994.
  • Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

  • 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: Artist of Life".
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    Bruce Lee

    • Born: November 27, 1940
    • Died: July 20, 1973
    • Occupation: Martial Artist