Steven Seagal Quotes

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Philosophy is the highest music.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.