D.T. Suzuki

When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.

The right art is purposeless, aimless!  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.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's hum drum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.