Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
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Ode interview (2009)
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Franz Marc (1880–1916) German painter
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“If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.”
Anita Shreve (1946–2018) American writer
Source: Where or When
“Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art “lives” where absolute freedom is.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 156
Context: Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art “lives” where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the “self” vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) Armenian-American painter
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Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter
Source: 1956 - 1967, Art-as-Art Dogma' part II, (1964), p. 155