D.T. Suzuki Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Art, Truth

• I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Technique, Growing

• The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Music, Art, Quality

• The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Arrows, Archery

• Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Essence, Vision

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Souvenir Press

• Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Essence, Suffering

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Souvenir Press

• Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Unconscious

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