45 Quotes by Eugen Herrigel

The effortlessness of a performance for which great strength is needed is a spectacle of whose aesthetic beauty the East has an exceedingly sensitive and grateful appreciation.

„Pravé umění“, křičel Mistr, „je bezúčelné, bezcílné!

Ten, kdo má ujít 100 mil, by měl pokládat 99 mil za polovinu cesty.

...kdokoliv činí rychlý pokrok na začátku, má tím více potíží později.

Tikrasis menas yra betikslis, nesąmoningas! /.../ Jums skersai kelio stoja tai, kad turite per daug klusnią valią. Manote, kad tai, ko nepadarysite, neįvyks.

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. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.