Top 100 Peace Art Quotes
#1. Assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.
Robert Adams
#2. Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.
Jenim Dibie
#3. Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand.
Samuel Goldwyn
#4. Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#5. But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
Yoko Ono
#6. The Art of Peace is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.
Morihei Ueshiba
#7. I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#8. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honourable way - the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason - and you can enforce the peace without any honour at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble.
Gregory David Roberts
#9. And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.
Vladimir Nabokov
#10. Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can use to refract human experience. That one can write about something gives him courage to endure it; that he has written about it brings him, if not deeper understanding, some kind of peace.
Kerima Polotan
#12. The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
Wayne Shorter
#13. I declare peace as the greatest work of art.
Wolf Vostell
#14. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.
Morihei Ueshiba
#15. Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
Emily Carr
#16. I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.
Meredith Brooks
#17. The art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That's why you need the peace of mind.
Robert M. Pirsig
#18. The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrifices my Mom made for me.
Forrest Curran
#19. The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely
on weapons or brute force to succeed
Morihei Ueshiba
#20. WHEN we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that because of our noble intentions everything will be okay.
Pema Chodron
#21. The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.
Nikki Rowe
#23. Peace is an art as much as war is, and knowing when and how to negotiate peace is the art's highest form.
Wick Allison
#24. PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.
Morihei Ueshiba
#25. The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.
Robert M. Pirsig
#26. THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.
Morihei Ueshiba
#27. I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.
Yoko Ono
#28. There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Morihei Ueshiba
#29. You are your art
Your are your song
You are your craft.
You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream;
Priscilla Koranteng
#30. In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.
Albert Einstein
#31. Emotional versatility is the art of making peace with the entire emotional spectrum by honing your capacity to channel various feelings along creative and constructive lines. It is not about controlling or condemning your feelings. It's about conducting your feelings in a self-edifying way.
T.K. Coleman
#32. The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#33. Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
Daisaku Ikeda
#34. As we awaken we move from a realm of confusion to one of certainty and Peace.
Jacqueline Ripstein
#35. The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
Arthur Miller
#36. Art is a positive "FORCE" that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary.
Henry Johnson Jr
#37. Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
Felix Frankfurter
#38. Chaos is Peace ... Blackness, blackness intolerable, before the beginning of the light. This is the first verse of Genesis. Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms!
Aleister Crowley
#39. Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.
Morihei Ueshiba
#40. Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.
Sun Tzu
#41. The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
Morihei Ueshiba
#42. The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
Morihei Ueshiba
#43. The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.
Kuroda Nagamasa
#44. In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art ... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.
Carl Jung
#46. To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
#47. When we know how to be at peace, we find that art is a wonderful way to share our peacefulness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#48. The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of harmony, not those of contention. The Art of Peace is required, not the Art of War.
Morihei Ueshiba
#50. In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.
Sun Tzu
#51. To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.
Morihei Ueshiba
#52. A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.
Margaret Walker
#53. Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.
Timothy Egan
#54. Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.
Guru Arjan
#55. We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.
Bryant McGill
#56. Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.
Wynona Mulcaster
#57. THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.
Morihei Ueshiba
#58. In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world.
Morihei Ueshiba
#59. INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.
Morihei Ueshiba
#60. Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.
Manprit Kaur
#61. PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.
Morihei Ueshiba
#62. It didn't get better, not in my book. I mean if you weren't looking too hard at what just happened or who might be down the road or at some other stuff. Maybe living well is the art of not looking at that, at the other stuff, when you don't have to. Or being okay with it.
Peter Heller
#63. [on the atomic bomb] It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#64. Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
Ned Rorem
#65. Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in the transfiguring mirror of art or poetry; especially in youth, when we do not yet know it. Many a youth would receive great peace of mind if one could assist him to this knowledge.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#66. I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased the pain and life that was once filled with burden became sane again. It Became meaningful.
Art does matter, it made me, when the world changed me.
Nikki Rowe
#67. Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#68. A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
Alfred North Whitehead
#69. I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana
#70. Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?
Elie Wiesel
#71. Line of control should be a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.
Amit Ray
#72. One thing that makes aikido is so powerful,
it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight.
Toba Beta
#73. To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.
Mary Stewart
#74. When two sides who consider each other enemies converge in armed struggle, for the moment they are no longer enemies. They are fellow human beings who face the same two choices that their ancestors did for centuries before them: to destroy each other or to prosper together.
Thomas Huynh
#75. Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
#76. Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.
Steven Spielberg
#77. Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
George Santayana
#79. She had found more than peace of mind. She had discovered the state of her soul set down in ink.
Nancy Horan
#80. I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
Criss Jami
#81. In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
#83. The Art of Peace is the principle of nonresistance. Because it is nonresistant it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. The Art of Peace is invincible because it contends with nothing.
Morihei Ueshiba
#84. Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.
Jet Li
#85. The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.
Bryant McGill
#86. THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the voice of peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor.
Morihei Ueshiba
#87. In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.
Virchand Gandhi
#89. Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#90. BE GRATEFUL EVEN for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
#91. Our lives are a work of art. Plant seeds of love and respect and reap a harvest of prosperity and peace.
Joan Pillen
#92. A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#93. If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
#94. To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
[Lat., Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.]
Tacitus
#95. If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.
Saadi
#96. And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.
Aristotle.
#97. What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
Robert Gottlieb
#98. WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
Ambrose Bierce
#99. An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
Eric Maisel
#100. The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive.
Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!
David G. Jones
