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"You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally."

— Robert M. Pirsig

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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig has 135 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the…
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies…
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's…
When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to…
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of…
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far…
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit…
A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his…
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.

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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right… — Aristotle
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. — Mackenzie Astin
It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right… — Johann Sebastian Bach
I want to do something creative, not just easy. — Sebastian Bach
It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one. — Sebastian Bach
Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to… — Lester Bangs
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some… — Kevin Bacon

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