The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.
Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.
It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
Enemies were teachers in disguise.
As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.
I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.
For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.