Art Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when…

— Peter Levitt

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

— Frederick Lenz

“Zen teacher Lewis Richmond tells the story of hearing Shunryu Suzuki sum up Buddhism in two words. Suzuki had just finished giving a talk…

— Phil Jackson

Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city…

— Aldo Leopold

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make…

— Hillary Clinton

...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents.…

— H.E. Davey

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art.…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic…

— John Millington Synge

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

— Wyndham Lewis

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting…

— Jane Jacobs