Quotes about Personal Growth

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up

It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.

Making art is a journey.

Self-creation is the highest art.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

I want to create amazing art and content that inspires people to want to be the best versions of themselves everyday, and never let anyone (even themselves) hold them back.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work.